From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] battery.el Retrieve more information from sysfs Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:38:58 -0500 Message-ID: <877h1nvr4t.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> References: <87r50190eb.fsf@Apollo.jerryland.fr> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1324615153 10403 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2011 04:39:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jeremy.compostella@gmail.com, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 23 05:39:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RdwuS-0007jc-5D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:39:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdwuR-0001B3-EM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdwuP-0001Ay-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:39:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdwuN-0001JE-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f48.google.com ([209.85.216.48]:60772) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdwuN-0001J4-MI; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: by qadc16 with SMTP id c16so6348986qad.0 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:39:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:reply-to:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=4eYAxcI864qv6uzWgo6ipa0WCs+e5GzNbqWYaQ2ZuX4=; b=cIeydHFh3EBByzNhMLj8z/1yNJYQtb6M71jr0SFBvVlbHha60JImnfrEO9AmIgY/2i MbZS1hpwb6iKmqvhV4vFduVlKAHS2s4ykvi/h5OVQ/ty5evOUn4B+pOVjDqiBAIQ/gfu cFtG86WQAeO/P+Z0yBCRWfO8+81rlpQ5MVJDc= Original-Received: by 10.224.175.193 with SMTP id bb1mr16891865qab.41.1324615141438; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:39:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from floss.red-bean.com (cpe-66-65-49-129.nyc.res.rr.com. [66.65.49.129]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h9sm21699160qac.13.2011.12.22.20.38.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:39:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:59:19 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.48 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146933 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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