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Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c b/sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c index 31ebfa9491..77577bf3e1 100644 --- a/sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c +++ b/sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c @@ -974,7 +974,20 @@ TRANS You did @strong{what}? */ #endif #ifdef EIEIO /* -TRANS Go home and have a glass of warm, dairy-fresh milk. */ +TRANS Go home and have a glass of warm, dairy-fresh milk. +TRANS @c Okay. Since you are dying to know, I'll tell you. +TRANS @c This is a joke, obviously. There is a children's song which begins, +TRANS @c "Old McDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o." Every time I see the (real) +TRANS @c errno macro EIO, I think about that song. Probably most of my +TRANS @c compatriots who program on Unix do, too. One of them must have stayed +TRANS @c up a little too late one night and decided to add it to Hurd or Glibc. +TRANS @c Whoever did it should be castigated, but it made me laugh. +TRANS @c --jtobey@channel1.com +TRANS @c +TRANS @c "bought the farm" means "died". -jtobey +TRANS @c +TRANS @c Translators, please do not translate this litteraly, translate it into +TRANS @c an idiomatic funny way of saying that the computer died. */ [ERR_REMAP (EIEIO)] = N_("Computer bought the farm"), # if EIEIO > ERR_MAX # undef ERR_MAX |