Re: kernel support for non-English user messages

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> I thought you might be seriously in need of some mental evaluation
>> when you claimed that users "liked looking up error numbers in
>> manuals".
> 
> 
>  Not the looking up part, but that fact that the explanation
> for every single message the software could emit was available.
> 
>  Today it's all HTML documents or PDFs or something, but it's still
> a staggering amount of information.  I have ~300MB of Oracle
> documentation on one desktop, 6 of it server error messages alone.
> Every possible message is explained to some extent, except this one:

IMHO, it'd be better to just make the kernel error messages meaningful.
Keeping a large pile of documentation in sync with the source is
a PITA.

M.