B. Ux: A C++ Wrapper for Standard UNIX Functions
I’ve been complaining throughout this book that the standard UNIX API suffers from inconsistent error handling, confusing naming, and redundancies. As I suggested in Section 1.4.3, C++ exceptions provide a much better way to handle errors. As long as I’m going to do that, I might as well rename the functions and organize them into classes, mostly following the categories in Appendix D.
My attempt at a C++ wrapper is called Ux. It was designed to meet these goals:
1. 100% uniform error handling for all functions
2. 100% functionality for the functions that are wrapped
3. Organization into objects that reflect the UNIX architecture
4. Elimination of redundant, obsolete, or defective functions (e.g., ...
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