Re: [TUHS] made up errno contest, at an early USENIX

Mike O???Brien (aka Mr. Protocol) On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Aharon Robbins <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote: > Hi All. > > This is really gonna stretch the memories. (I may have even asked about > it on this list before.) > > At one of the earlier USENIX conferences that I attended, maybe in > Atlanta, there was a contest to make up humorous new errno values. > The one that won, which I remember to this day was: > > EMISTERED: > A host is a host from coast to coast, > and no-one can talk to host that's close, > unless the host that isn't close > is busy, hung, or dead. > > I have quoted this is the gawk doc for many years. > > I'm wondering if there is a way to find out who was the author > of this gem? I'd like to give him/her credit. > > Thanks, > > Arnold > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >