From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: UNIX Heritage Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] EGREG
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 08:39:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80FFBC07-6DA2-4F7B-A717-7393E308B6EE@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYKu8hOr7Opu1vRVKWsF-GB5=tVxTjkQ6-_gB4aOdeVu3Q@mail.gmail.com>
yes. but that stems from another tale.
> On Jan 17, 2021, at 8:37 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But this is you, right?
> "sys/games/lib/fortunes:I'm just andrew. -andrew"
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 7:19 AM Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com> wrote:
>>
>> i have probed recently about the origins of the “EGREG” (its all greg cession’s fault) error in Research Unix.
>> alas, i recall nothing about this, and can’t recall ever getting the message.
>>
>> however, courtesy of Dave Presotto (i am fairly sure), there was an equivalent error
>> in Plan 9, where more or less randomly, if your user id was ‘andrew’, system calls would fail.
>> and yes, i did feel special; this was one of my lesser contributions to Plan 9.
>> this stopped after a while (several to many months, maybe).
>>
>> andrew hume
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-17 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-17 14:57 Andrew Hume
2021-01-17 16:37 ` ron minnich
2021-01-17 16:39 ` Andrew Hume [this message]
2021-01-17 20:52 Norman Wilson
2021-01-17 21:14 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-17 23:20 ` Rob Pike
2021-01-18 5:39 ` Andrew Hume
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