Losing the magic

And by the way.... the com_err library is not just used by e2fsprogs. It's also used by Kerberos, as well as a number of other projects that were developed at MIT's Project Athena[1] (including Zephyr[2], Moira[3], Hesiod[4], Discuss[5], etc.)

[1] http://web.mit.edu/saltzer/www/publications/atp.html
[2] http://web.mit.edu/saltzer/www/publications/athenaplan/e....
[3] http://web.mit.edu/saltzer/www/publications/athenaplan/e....
[4] http://web.mit.edu/saltzer/www/publications/athenaplan/e....
[5] http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/www/discuss/discuss.html