Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

From: Nicolas Pitre (nico@cam.org)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 14:01:20 EDT

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    On Sat, 19 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

    > > Now that I'm awake and refreshed, yeah, that's awful. But
    > > echo "hot-add,slot=5,device=/dev/sda" >/dev/md0/control *is* sane. Heck,
    > > the system can even send back result codes that way.
    >
    > Only to an English speaker. I suspect Quebec City canadians would prefer a
    > different command set.

    Well... Around here we've been used to Microsoft translations like:

    ETES-VOUS CERTAIN [O/N] ?

    ... and of course pressing 'o' doesn't work while 'y' does. :-)

    Wanting to localize such low-level keywords is utopia. Otherwise you'll
    want to translate command names like free, rm, mv, etc. and yet programming
    languages as well like C keywords. And then you come to a point where
    nothing could be interoperable any more.

    Nicolas

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