On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:01:50AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote: > >From: John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Wednesday 09 November 2005 09:30 am, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:08:39PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> +> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pawel Jakub > >> Dawidek writes: +> > >> +> > >> +> >In current world order you can decide based on LC_ALL/LANG, etc. > >> +> > >> +> Read my lips: printf(9) and panic(9) are _never_ going to respect > >> +> any environment variable. > >> > >> Printf(9) and panic(9) are for administrator, not for user. > >> Anyway, let's stop here, as we're going nowhere. > > > >If you are going to provide l10n of these messages, you'll need to do it in > >userland somehow. However, if you return strings that task becomes a bit > >harder. I still prefer returning error data, not presentation, and letting > >something else (userland) take care of formatting error data and presenting > >it to the user. > > Maybe it would make sense to split the error code and > any extra data related to the error (for example, > the pathname that caused it or any extra explanation). > The error code would go into errno while only the > extra data would go into the string error. This > extra data won't need to be translaed anyway.
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