Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:24:53 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: New Feature Idea: Configurable text(msgs) |
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:38:23 +1100 From: Kevin Lentin <kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au>
What about the OS/2 system (which I'm sure has been used elsewhere).
We assign every error message a number. The kernel puts that error number in the printk. A kernel error daemon, or indeed klogd, uses a message file to translate the message into the language of choice. The printk can still include a message which would be used instead of, or in addition to, the message file.
eg: printk("Oh my God! You killed Kenny!"); becomes: printk("@0056@Oh my God! You killed Kenny!");
And how does OS/2 handle error message with parameterized arguments?
printk("Unit %d to Control: Kenny has been killed in sector %d", unit, sector);
- Ted
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