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The following was sent to me by a friend who was working at HP during
the summer. I am posting it here for the people who missed the
USENIX conference and who don't get the HP newsgroups.
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At the USENIX Association conference in Atlanta recently a contest was
held to invent the most humorous/bizarre/etc UN*X error message of the
errno(2) 'EERROR' type. This contest had been tried at an earlier European
Users Group meeting, where the winning entry was:
ENOTOBACCO Read on an empty pipe
You get the idea. A partial [alphabetized] list of 'top(?)' entries from
Atlanta [and from several readers of hp.unix] follows; if your pun/wierdness
tolerance is low, you may want to abandon ship:
EBEFOREI Invalid syntax
ECHERNOBYL Core dumped
ECRAY Program exited before being run
EDINGDONG The daemon is dead
EFLAT System needs tuning
EGEEK Program written by inept Frat member
EIEIO Here-a-bug, there-a-bug, ....
EIUD Missing period
ELECTROLUX Your code could stand to be cleaned up
EMILYPOST Wrong fork
END.ARMS.CONTROL Silo overflow
ENOHORSE Mount failed
ENONSEQUETOR C program not derived from
main(){printf("Hello, world");}
EWATERGATE Extended tape gap
EWOK Aliens sighted
EWOK Your code appears to have been stir-fried
EWOULDBNICE The feature you want has not been implemented yet
And finally, a sort-of 'period piece':
EMR.ED A host is a host,
From coast to coast
And nobody talks to a host that's close,
Unless the host that isn't close
Is busy, hung, or dead.
I would also like this new signal to be supported:
SIGNUKE Nuclear event occurred (cannot be caught or ignored :-)
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Naim Abdullah
Dept. of EECS,
Northwestern University,
ihnp4!nucsrl!naim
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Updated: $Date: 2006/05/07 07:10:36 $ $Author: ramprasadb $