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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:55:11 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Riley Williams <Riley@Williams.Name>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel support for non-English user messages
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:35:36AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I've used VMS, and error code number encoding is a total heap of
> crap.

What about prefixing known messages with error-numbers, perhaps even
being able to suppress these for sysctl or similar?  Would that not
work both-ways?

The only thing is that it requires more work in the build process...


  --cw