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From: Raymond Wiker <rwiker@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why doesn't Apple update the kernel instead of outdating hardware/software?
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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> writes:

> Yes. And it's even a pain in the ass for servers, due to the nature of
> open source, where problems often result in cryptic errors written by
> teenage open source developers. One example (out of many I have
> encountered in my career) is a version of rsync in a production RHEL
> installation where the only error generated was literally:
>
> You don't exist, go away!
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
> [sender]
> rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(463) [sender=2.6.8]
>

That particular message is (probably) not from rsync, and it existed in
BSD Unix (I think) well before Linux appeared. Not something to blame
Linux-hacking teenagers for :-)