A modest proposal for better errno values...

[Jordan Hubbard]

If it's just used for kernel errors, I was pretty happy with the 
EDONTPANIC suggestion someone made earlier. :)

- Jordan

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> At 1:57 AM -0700 5/13/03, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>> ... and "yeah, that's a pretty silly errno value and in rather
>> colloquial english at that, let's pick a more descriptive name
>> like ``EUSERERR'' or something which makes any code using it
>> more clear."
>
> I think it is fine to change the name, but EUSERERR is certainly
> not right.  The bikeshed is then picking an appropriate name.
>
>   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.
>
> -- 
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