A modest proposal for better errno values...

[Wes Peters]

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 01:57, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
> jkh at 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 at softweyr.com