Re: impressions from a hurd newbie

To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi>
Cc: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: impressions from a hurd newbie
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 08 Jul 1999 20:36:52 -0400
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In-reply-to: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo's message of "08 Jul 1999 12:20:28 +0300"
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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:

> It comes from strerror(EGRATUITOUS), so the string is in glibc.
> EGRATUITOUS can be returned by several Hurd servers, apparently
> when they hit internal limitations or bugs.

More precisely EGRATUITOUS officially means that some server has
responded in an impossible or protocol-violating fashion.  There are
some cases in the Hurd where EGRATUITOUS is returned and probably
something else should be chosen instead.

Thomas

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