A modest proposal for better errno values...

[Stijn Hoop]

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, but only if the this text is included as a comment
directly above the definition in the header :) :) :)

--Stijn

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