From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: jeremy.compostella@gmail.com,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] battery.el Retrieve more information from sysfs
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:38:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h1nvr4t.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RdwHv-0002nT-3J@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:59:19 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>If this code keeps breaking, and we have to keep fixing it,
>is that similar to the Greek myth of sysfs?
Well, under Hercules [1] it's stable, but only if you redirect the River
Styx through it...
Oh my. I'm afraid this thread could go on for a very, very long time.
-Karl
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_%28emulator%29
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-23 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-18 18:53 [PATCH] battery.el Retrieve more information from sysfs Jérémy Compostella
2011-12-21 10:03 ` Jérémy Compostella
2011-12-21 19:30 ` Karl Fogel
2011-12-22 0:08 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2011-12-22 10:18 ` Jérémy Compostella
2011-12-22 11:30 ` Roland Winkler
2011-12-22 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-23 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-23 4:38 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2011-12-23 7:10 ` Bastien
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