Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 00:21:32 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values... Message-ID: <20030514042132.GA7287@hal9000.halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <75B77572-85A0-11D7-BE4E-000393C6E688@apple.com> References: <p05210614bae7240b759e@[128.113.24.47]> <75B77572-85A0-11D7-BE4E-000393C6E688@apple.com>
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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] -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |
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