From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264358AbTDKNIJ (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:08:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264359AbTDKNIJ (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:08:09 -0400 Received: from siaag2ab.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.132]:26053 "EHLO siaag2ab.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264358AbTDKNII (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:08:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:17:22 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: kernel support for non-English user messages To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel Message-ID: <200304110919_MC3-1-33FD-6E7@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linux Torvalds wrote: > I've used VMS, and error code number encoding is a total heap of crap. Maybe for developers, but users like it. I can still remember back in the Old Days, taking those error codes and looking them up in something called a "manual" where there was a coherent explanation of what had gone wrong and even suggestions on what to do about it. (Of course there were drawbacks, too... when the leather belt driving the Difference Engine broke, for example, it was every man for himself!) -- Chuck