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