Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 21:05:18 -0500 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values... Message-ID: <20030516020518.GA41275@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20030514042132.GA7287@hal9000.halplant.com> References: <p05210614bae7240b759e@[128.113.24.47]> <75B77572-85A0-11D7-BE4E-000393C6E688@apple.com> <20030514042132.GA7287@hal9000.halplant.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030516020518.GA41275>