Actually, I used to assume that werror() was already a wrapper, since it handles sprintf() style formatting, something which doesn't really need to be part of the builtin function.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2004-07-04 15:37: Subject: Re: Warnings from startup script
Note that noone has objected to your ad-hoc solution regarding werror. I think it would serve fine as a short term fix.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS