From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 03/18] usage: implement error_errno() the same way as
 die_errno()
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:07:47 -0600
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Christian Couder wrote:

> die_errno() is very useful, but sometimes we don't want to
> die after printing an error message and the error message
> from errno.

Yes, please!  I have often wished for this helper.