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Add some wisdom from Garrett Wollman concerning error codes returned by

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Colin Percival 2006-01-27 21:06:19 +00:00
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@ -29939,6 +29939,11 @@ It is only with the heart one can see clearly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- The Fox, 'The Little Prince"
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It is perfectly permissible for every system call to fail with [ENOTADUCK]
unless the first five bytes of the caller's address space contain the
word "quack".
-- Garrett Wollman
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It is possible by ingenuity and at the expense of clarity... {to do almost
anything in any language}. However, the fact that it is possible to push
a pea up a mountain with your nose does not mean that this is a sensible