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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2019-12-16 21:19:30 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2019-12-16 21:19:30 +0100
commit10f1958417a4944a60a08230eae6a639209d52f8 (patch)
tree7662166d1cf40507e65fba6dbb9ee73a7c652afc /sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c
parent963c37d5c0eb62b38f8764b23931c0dcdd497a13 (diff)
parenta2e487ce1c59d19345d9ecacc58de79febd869e4 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://sourceware.org/git/glibc into upstreamupstream
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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