. \" Manual Seite fuer error . \" @(#)error.3 1.1 . \" error() - formats and prints on the standard error stream

 error(format,arg1\|.\|.\|.argn);
 char *format 

error is the equivalent of: fprintf(stderr, format, arg1\|.\|.\|.argn). none comerr(3), comerrno(3), error(3), errmsg(3), error(3) geterrno(3), printf(3), format(3) Normally stderr is unbuffered. Using error() allows a simple message to be immediately written to the user via the standard error stream (stderr).