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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



  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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