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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--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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' --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+wd/KY3r/tLQmfWcRAok+AJ47L5keuzE/pSPWq7NEbSdNQteoFwCffRM/ HAhsgPBTl1tXp1Bhv1b/sH4= =Mhi3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--
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