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+.\" $OpenBSD: perror.3,v 1.11 2019/05/16 13:35:16 schwarze Exp $
+.\"
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+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 16 2019 $
+.Dt PERROR 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm perror
+.Nd write error messages to standard error
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In stdio.h
+.Ft void
+.Fn perror "const char *string"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn perror
+function looks up the error message string affiliated
+with an error number and writes it, followed by a new-line, to the
+standard error stream.
+.Pp
+If the argument
+.Fa string
+is not the
+.Dv NULL
+pointer and is not zero length, it is prepended to the message string and
+separated from it by a colon and a space
+.Pq Ql \&:\ \& .
+Otherwise, only the error message string is printed.
+.Pp
+The contents of the error message string are the same as those returned by
+.Fn strerror
+with argument
+.Fa errno .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr intro 2 ,
+.Xr psignal 3 ,
+.Xr setlocale 3 ,
+.Xr strerror 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn perror
+function conforms to
+.St -ansiC .
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn perror
+function first appeared in
+.At v4 .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+On systems other than
+.Ox ,
+the
+.Dv LC_MESSAGES
+.Xr locale 1
+category can cause different strings to be printed instead of the
+normal error messages; see CAVEATS in
+.Xr setlocale 3
+for details.