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 Message 134,129 of 135,166 
 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.

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Nuno Silva

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