Re: kernel support for non-English user messages

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:55:11 -0700


On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:35:36AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I've used VMS, and error code number encoding is a total heap of
> crap.

What about prefixing known messages with error-numbers, perhaps even
being able to suppress these for sysctl or similar? Would that not
work both-ways?

The only thing is that it requires more work in the build process...

--cw
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