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Subject: Re: Error reporting (Was: [9fans] GNU Make)
Date: Thu,  3 Jun 2004 15:01:47 +0100
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> you return the %r chunk and then hash it into an associative array of translated messages, indexed by hash.

no you couldn't, 'cos the kernel adds a filename for some error messages.

was there a good reason why the filename was put in front of the error
message rather than vice versa?  it seems odd - it means you have to
parse the error message, rather than just doing a strncmp, and you
don't have to worry too much about the filename being truncated at the
end.