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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:24:30PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Garrett Wollman, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> It is perfectly permissible for every system call to fail with
> [ENOTADUCK] unless the first five bytes of the caller's address
> space contain the word "quack".

Ducks don't byte, they just nybble a lyttle.


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