27 Sep
2014
27 Sep
'14
7:19 p.m.
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