Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Errors on non existing partitions | Date | 20 Jan 1998 00:09:01 GMT |
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Followup to: <199801192000.VAA10845@zrt2.gfz-potsdam.de> By author: Steffen Grunewald <steffen@gfz-potsdam.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> As far as I can tell, most kernel messages (not only Linux') are in hex. > They aren't meant to be read by mere humans anyway :-) > Would you like the kernel being bloated by 0x... prefixes for every oops > and panic message ?!?!^
IMO, it is stupid that the kernel prints these in hex when ls -l shows them in decimal...
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