Re: kernel support for non-english user messages

[Tim Connors]

In linux.kernel, you wrote:
>>>>>> " " == Alan Cox <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
>      > VMS is alive and well, even though Compaq tried to kill
>      > it. There is a lot of anti-VMS stuff in the Unix world mostly
>      > coming from the _horrible_ command line and other bad early
>      > memories. There is also a hell of a lot of really cool stuff
>      > under that command line we could and should learn from.
> 
> The day I wake up and see one of my processes in the "RWAST" state is
> the day I move to a BSD clone 8-)

Er, Only used VMS once, but you mean like a process stuck in a D
state?

Happens often with NFS ;)

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