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   Message 134,129 of 135,536   
   Nuno Silva to rbowman   
   Re: Service startup errors   
   31 Dec 25 09:13:16   
   
   From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-31, rbowman wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:53:56 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >   
   >> But if it means something to them, it's still miles ahead of a   
   >> "something went wrong" message.  If you're lucky you might find a list   
   >> of what the error codes mean.   
   >   
   > https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/10/linux-error-codes/   
   >   
   > printf("Oh shit! %s\n", strerror(errno));   
      
   Unless coffee is playing tricks on me,   
      
       perror("Oh shit!");   
      
   ought to be the same except for an additional colon.   
      
   Its online manual page (section 3p here, hence POSIX) seems to indicate   
   it's also in the C standard.   
      
   --   
   Nuno Silva   
      
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