Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: kernel support for non-English user messages | Date | Sat, 12 Apr 2003 08:48:44 +0100 (BST) |
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> > I thought you might be seriously in need of some mental evaluation > > when you claimed that users "liked looking up error numbers in > > manuals". > > Not the looking up part, but that fact that the explanation > for every single message the software could emit was available. > > Today it's all HTML documents or PDFs or something, but it's still > a staggering amount of information. I have ~300MB of Oracle > documentation on one desktop, 6 of it server error messages alone. > Every possible message is explained to some extent, except this one:
[SNIP]
> which is currently pretty much the only explanation available for > a whole lot of Linux error messages. I can go read the source when e.g. > the md driver splats its internal status dumps all over the console > during array rebuild, but that doesn't help much.
/Documentation could be a lot better than it is... Some of it is very out of date.
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