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From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
To: "here-a-bug, there-a-bug, ..." <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: moratorium on new package submissions!
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B32D323.2090301@byu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B32C6A3.6060808@users.sourceforge.net>

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According to Yaakov (Cygwin/X) on 12/23/2009 6:40 PM:
> On 23/12/2009 14:53, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Of course, there has been at least one package update since I sent this
>> message too so a cow has crashed through the barn wall.
> 
> EIEIO? :-)

I actually got EIEIO on a GNU/Hurd system the other day.  I believe it was
via rename("dir/..","other") during one of my syscall stress tests - the
call is supposed to fail with EINVAL, but Hurd didn't reject it, and ended
up deadlocking the file system, and ended up requiring a reboot.  But I
couldn't help but laugh at the strerror output - "computer bought the
farm".  I had to go check /usr/include/errno.h to verify that there really
was such an errno value.  And wikipedia even has a segment on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bought_the_farm#Error_messages

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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