From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] I'm puzzled
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 07:00:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070529105804.C68B41E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10705282113iec0fa05hcf85679888b9a12d@mail.gmail.com>
> This is also another "useless message" example that drives part time
> guys like me nuts. Would it really absolutely run counter to all Plan
> 9 principles, and violate peoples lives, fortunes, and sacred honor,
> to PRINT THE FRIGGING DATES? It would at least tell me, if the dates
> were totally nuts, that there was corruption going on here. This
> message contains (almost) not useful data.
for what it's worth, most of the error messages do
try to be helpful now. it was harder to be helpful
when the errors were limited to 28 bytes in old 9p,
and the auth server code has not been updated
since they got bigger. at least you didn't get EACCES
or something like that.
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-29 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-29 4:13 ron minnich
2007-05-29 5:48 ` geoff
2007-05-29 5:51 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-05-29 6:21 ` ron minnich
2007-05-29 11:00 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2007-05-29 15:51 ` ron minnich
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