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Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:12:11 +0200
From:	Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: djgpp:
	djgpp/src/libc/ansi/string/syserr1.c,syserr1.h,syserr2.c,syserr3.c
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > + char __syserr39[] = "Too many levels of symbolic links (ELOOP)";
> 
> Did you take this message text from some Unix box?

Indeed, from Linux/GNU, or glibc 2.1.3 to be more accurate.

> I think we tried to mimic Unix systems in these error messages.  

And we do mimic, in this case.

> So I
> suggest this:
> 
>    "Too many symbolic links encountered (ELOOP)"

Hm. The only difference is 'encountered', and most other error
messages in DJGPP are missing this kind of participles too.
So I don't think this will make a big improvement. But if you
insist, I will change it.

Laurynas

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