Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:36:51 +0200 | From | Marek Habersack <> | Subject | Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? |
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* Riley Williams said:
> > Aren't there translations for it, anyway? I mean, it should be > > that hard to have language strings of some sort and be able to > > use it. Even without it, most English language descriptions may > > not have much weight to one who doesn't know English very > > well... I think that it's a loss that could be accepted. > > Personally, I'd prefer to see Linux move over to having any error call > a separate module to generate the actual error message, and leave that > module to sort out the precice wording thereof. That way, it could be Why litter the kernel with messages? Why not just add error interpretation to some external daemon - sysklogd is an excellent place to do that. It would simply parse all kerenel messages looking for, say
"kernel: kerror 00 at 0x0000:0x0000"
then look it up in some erorr database and output the translated message - and even localized one if you will. Less kernel space, more convenience for users, and no more such longish discussions as this one. I would gladly code it, if there was consent it's a good approach.
> However, when I proposed such a system some months back, and offered > to do the necessary, it was turned down by all concerned, apparently > on the basis of the loss of performancee that such a system was > claimed to inevitably suffer from. If put in the kernel, yes, but in the userland?
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