Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:22:33 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@apple.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values... Message-ID: <200305131922.33556.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <E371408A-8520-11D7-8900-000393BB9222@apple.com> References: <E371408A-8520-11D7-8900-000393BB9222@apple.com>
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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 01:57, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
> jkh@freebsd-> grep DOOFUS /usr/include/sys/errno.h
> #define EDOOFUS 88 /* Programming error */
I think your tie is knotted a bit too snugly, it's cutting off the flow
of blood into your brain.
If Apple wants to import FreeBSD code (it has been a very one-way
street, hasn't it?) and wants to avoid having an EDOOFUS in their
system, Apple can certainly devote a few minutes of programmer time to
writing an import filter that automagically converts EDOOFUS to the
Apple approved errno that does not marginalize stupid programmers. (It
does make one wonder why Apple would be so touchy about this particular
problem, doesn't it?) I want to suggest EWORM but that obviously won't
do in the corporate humorless environment.
It really is too bad that Apple has never quite recovered from Tim's
warped sense of humor, in re: Butthead Astronomer.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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