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Hubbard Asks FreeBSD Hackers To Rename EDOOFUS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sounds-fair-enough dept.

MobyTurbo writes "Jordan K. Hubbard, on instruction from Apple, had to inform the freebsd-hackers list that the error, pointed to by the error message number named EDOOFUS, must be changed. Several interesting suggestions have been made in the resulting thread."

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  1. Christ... Useless mirroring! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Take a look at the freakin' URL, it's from a server run by Google!
    I somehow think that their daily traffic vastly outpaces Slashdot's on just about any given day.

    Somebody mod this karma whoring post down please?

  2. Call for opinions by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously the kernel developers need OUR help to sort this sorry mess out. Everyone, please make a google news account ASAP and put your two cents in. If all of us together put our minds to it, and posted our opinions on that thread, I'm sure they would appreciate our help in solving this problem quickly and efficiently. Thanks.

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  3. From the Thread: by big_groo · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is my favorite response:

    From: Michael Meltzer (mjm@michaelmeltzer.com) Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values...

    View this article only Newsgroups: fa.freebsd.hackers Date: 2003-05-13 16:58:07 PST

    > #define EDOOFUS 88 /* Programming error */

    #define E370HSSV 88 /* Programming error */

    I think this one keeps the orinigal sprite of EDOOFUS, I will now crawl back into my cave :-)

    MJM

    PS. For the non dyslexics try reading it upsidedown.

    Priceless...

    1. Re:From the Thread: by renehollan · · Score: 3, Funny
      #define EUSERERR (EDOOFUS)

      There. That'll stop EDOOFUS from appearing in sanitized corporate source code...

      Until the day when...

      /*#define EUSERERR (EDOOFUS) -- was redundant */

      ... and all hell breaks loose in the software industry as builds break all over the place. Tee hee hee.

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  4. EUSERERR? by hackwrench · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure, shift the blame from the programmer (/* Programming error */) to the user(EUSERERR)

  5. Re:compromise by elmegil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Having gone back and read the ENTIRE thread now, however, I throw my weight (feather-like though it be) behind "EDONTPANIC" even though sometimes it's used outside of kernel code. If only errno 42 were still available....

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  6. Re:compromise by Ian+Jefferies · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this suggest the forking of EdoofusBSD?

    *ducks* and runs... and then goes and reads the Google thread. Oh, it's already AppleBSD.

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  7. Re:compromise by JDWTopGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    EdoofusBSD is dead!

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  8. or by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    EBUTHEADCOMPUTERCOMPANY

    No, it is not a troll. it reference tha outcome of something that happened between Apple and a certian astronomer.
    of course, if you are actually qualified to judge statemment about Apple, I wouldn't need this disclaimer. butthead.

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  9. Of course, with a little irony... by Mulligan · · Score: 2, Funny

    ESOSUMI

  10. EDOH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    EDOH!

    Now that has more meaning.

  11. Re:This seems typical by Arandir · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's so nice to know that the Linux community is free from elitism and other bad attitudes. Such a breath of fresh air in hackerdom.

    I mean after all, the freebsd-newbies list sends out a weekly messages saying to not post technical questions to the list. And what do the FreeBSD people do when someone posts a technical question to the wrong list after being repeatedly told not to? They tell the user not to! How rude!

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  12. Just rename it to by Slipped_Disk · · Score: 2, Funny

    EUCANTCODE

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  13. I was sold on EDONTPANIC... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...as soon as I saw this post:
    In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer
    Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, FreeBSD has already supplanted
    the great UNIX[R] as the standard repository of all knowledge
    and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains
    much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it
    scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important
    respects.

    First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the error
    EDONTPANIC inscribed in large friendly letters in its source.
  14. Re:compromise by br4dh4x0r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Both sides will be severely destroyed.

    Severely destroyed?

    That's much worse than getting normally destroyed.

  15. Re:it's not going to users... by Arker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well here's how I think.

    FreeBSD is very much an internet phenomenon.

    If you get upset when someone on the internet calls you a 'doofus' then you're not going to get much out of it. If that was the worst thing I'd ever been called... sheesh it's not even a real insult. It's like a nerf insult... I really think anyone that would feel insulted about it is wearing their feelings on their shirtsleeve to an absurd degree. In terms of removing barriers to participation, the barrier here would be the excessive sensitivity, not the word doofus.

    Now if the error was ESHITFORBRAINS maybe I could see your point, but doofus? Come on.

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