Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:31:48 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gettext Message-ID: <20000625173148.N36017@zoe.bastard.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000625123433.A3296@cichlids.cichlids.com>; from alex@big.endian.de on Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:34:33PM %2B0200 References: <20000623195641.C16231@cichlids.cichlids.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006240642580.7974-100000@lion.butya.kz> <20000624183906.B2843@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000624204402.A704@freebie.wbnet> <20000625123433.A3296@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Wilko Bulte (wkb@chello.nl): > > > difficult for Joe/Jane-average-committer. An idea like VMS uses comes to mind: > > IOERR-F-NOSUCHDEV: <insert localised text here>. The IOERR-thingy (I just > > invented this example) will be the same regardless of any i18n translated > > error text. > > that is fine :) > > But what about something like: > ENOENT: No such file or directory ... The trouble with using straight errno's is that they can mean slightly different things based upon which program/syscall made it. I'm not a VMS person, but the way VMS (and Cisco, and I am a cisco person) reports errors makes it very easy to take a flat text syslog output, and parse the error lines ..) 2c, adrian -- Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the <adrian@FreeBSD.org> rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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