Well, to clarify, in the old days, if a Windows function call failed, you'd call GetLastError to get a numerical error code, and FormatMessage to get a string describing the error, So if the error code was 0, meaning that the windows call succeeded, FormatMessage would return "The operation completed successfully." Obviously that's completely stupid.
On 24 October 2014 09:45, Winston Kodogo <kod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now I'm even more confused than normal. "cpu: can't dial: plan9.lanl.gov: > The operation completed successfully." > > This is a Windows error message? > > On 23 October 2014 09:04, Quintile <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > >> I fear a gnu style recursive definition coming on... >> >> -Steve >> >> >> >> >> >> On 22 Oct 2014, at 19:14, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> i think this situation is more fortune-worthy than the fortune that >> caused it. >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Mats Olsson <plan9....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I kind of had a feeling it was that way because when installing again >>> on another card, I got another message with this: If you think out >>> loud you're about to get a lot of ememies; as the bottom line (don't >>> remember the exact words). >>> >>> 2014-10-22 17:12 GMT+02:00, Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net>: >>> > Quoting Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com>: >>> > >>> >> On 22 October 2014 15:34, Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> Quoting Mats Olsson <plan9....@gmail.com>: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> cpu: can't dial: plan9.lanl.gov: The operation completed >>> successfully. >>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> this exact error message is in the fortunes file. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> oh well, that explains that: obviously the rio start-up on the pi runs >>> >> fortunes, to aid debugging. >>> > >>> > That is precisely what is happening. The startup script Steve Simon >>> sent >>> > runs his logwin script, which looks like this: >>> > >>> > #!/bin/rc >>> > >>> > fortune >>> > calendar -y >>> > news >>> > echo >>> > >>> > exec rc -i >>> > >>> > ...now compare Mats' output: >>> > >>> > cpu: can't dial: plan9.lanl.gov: The operation completed successfully. >>> > calendar: can't open /usr/glenda/lib/calendar: >>> > '/usr/glenda/lib/calendar' does not exist >>> > >>> > khm >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >> >
