error – Accidents Happen https://ah.thameera.com In the dark Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:53:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 56521109 Printing is not supported in this printer https://ah.thameera.com/printing-is-not-supported-in-this-printer/ https://ah.thameera.com/printing-is-not-supported-in-this-printer/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:53:57 +0000 http://noisythameera.wordpress.com/?p=67 This was posted in r/linux three days back. Turns out it’s actually been written by a human. And someone has spoiled the fun by sending a patch to gnome with the correct version of the error message: PostScript is not supported on this printer. That makes sense anyway.

Also discussed in the Comments section is the famous error message “Error: Success”. Apparently this mistake is common due to the fact that errors are communicated via a global errorno variable [source].

if (some_c_function() < 0) {
    some_other_c_function();
    print_error(errno);
}

This can be fixed without much hassle though.

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