From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 19:05:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AAC237B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mooseriver.com (adsl-68-73-118-170.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net [68.73.118.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7014843FBF for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@mooseriver.com) Received: by mooseriver.com (Postfix, from userid 200) id CA29D265; Thu, 15 May 2003 21:05:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 21:05:18 -0500 From: Josef Grosch To: hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030516020518.GA41275@mooseriver.com> References: <75B77572-85A0-11D7-BE4E-000393C6E688@apple.com> <20030514042132.GA7287@hal9000.halplant.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030514042132.GA7287@hal9000.halplant.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 02:05:20 -0000 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 > > EDONTPANIC suggestion someone made earlier. :) > > 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. > > First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the error > EDONTPANIC inscribed in large friendly letters in its source. > > > [With no apology to the late great DNA, -hackers or anyone else] I vote for EDONTPANIC. It has a nice inside joke feel to it. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.8 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | www.bafug.org