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diff --git a/manual/errno.texi b/manual/errno.texi index b195b635f1..8cb4ce8b48 100644 --- a/manual/errno.texi +++ b/manual/errno.texi @@ -810,6 +810,19 @@ You did @strong{what}? @standards{GNU, errno.h} @errno{EIEIO, 104, Computer bought the farm} Go home and have a glass of warm, dairy-fresh milk. +@c Okay. Since you are dying to know, I'll tell you. +@c This is a joke, obviously. There is a children's song which begins, +@c "Old McDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o." Every time I see the (real) +@c errno macro EIO, I think about that song. Probably most of my +@c compatriots who program on Unix do, too. One of them must have stayed +@c up a little too late one night and decided to add it to Hurd or Glibc. +@c Whoever did it should be castigated, but it made me laugh. +@c --jtobey@channel1.com +@c +@c "bought the farm" means "died". -jtobey +@c +@c Translators, please do not translate this litteraly, translate it into +@c an idiomatic funny way of saying that the computer died. @end deftypevr @deftypevr Macro int EGRATUITOUS |