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From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: UNIX Heritage Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] EGREG
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:57:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A958535E-7F0D-48F5-A248-438479BEC421@humeweb.com> (raw)

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


             reply	other threads:[~2021-01-17 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-17 14:57 Andrew Hume [this message]
2021-01-17 16:37 ` ron minnich
2021-01-17 16:39   ` Andrew Hume
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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