A modest proposal for better errno values...

Leo Bicknell bicknell at ufp.org
Tue May 13 16:43:42 PDT 2003


In a message written on Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:51:06PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>   EBADCOMMIT(ER)  ESKIPDISASTER  EAVERTWOE  EAVOIDABYSS
> 
> seem like some plausible names, given the description of the
> history behind the name, and what error is used for.  I'm sure
> another hundred could be thought of after about 15 minutes with
> a thesaurus.

Given the history of this thread perhaps "EAPPLE" would add a nice
bit of history. :)  It would give future generations a reason to
google for this thread.

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