Saturday, 04/13/02

More Google love: Yesterday I kept getting "Bad file descriptor" errors when I wanted to lock a durn file, so I fed the error text and some context into Google, hoping it would find a mailing list whose denizens had previously diagnosed the difficulty. It was successful, even though the original page was in German. Google correctly flagged the page as relevant, and then provided a translation that was more than adequate for figuring out my boneheaded error (it was a five-line test, and I'd forgotten to import the flock constants).

Jovially, even though the German error message was also "Bad file descriptor", not knowing where to draw the line between English and German, the ad-hoc translated page used "Bath file descriptor". 09:55AM «

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