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Date:      Wed, 14 May 2003 08:18:50 +0200
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A modest proposal for better errno values...
Message-ID:  <20030514061850.GA16421@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20030514042132.GA7287@hal9000.halplant.com>
References:  <p05210614bae7240b759e@[128.113.24.47]> <75B77572-85A0-11D7-BE4E-000393C6E688@apple.com> <20030514042132.GA7287@hal9000.halplant.com>

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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:21:32AM -0400, Andrew J Caines wrote:
> Jordan said...
> > If it's just used for kernel errors, I was pretty happy with the=20
> > EDONTPANIC suggestion someone made earlier. :)
>=20
> 	In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer
> 	Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, FreeBSD has already supplanted
> 	the great UNIX[R] as the standard repository of all knowledge
> 	and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains
> 	much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it
> 	scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important
> 	respects.
>=20
> 	First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the error
> 	EDONTPANIC inscribed in large friendly letters in its source.
>=20
> [With no apology to the late great DNA, -hackers or anyone else]

I vote for EDONTPANIC, but only if the this text is included as a comment
directly above the definition in the header :) :) :)

--Stijn

--=20
"...I like logs. They give me a warm fuzzy feeling. I've been known to keep
logs for 30 months at a time (generally when I thought I was rotating them
daily, but was actually rotating them once a month)."
	-- Michael Lucas, in Big Scary Daemons article 'Controlling Bandwidth'

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