From owner-cvs-all Sun May 5 12: 4:46 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8594F37B406; Sun, 5 May 2002 12:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g45J3oa22831; Sun, 5 May 2002 15:03:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 15:03:50 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft To: "J. Mallett" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.c Message-ID: <20020505150350.D52212@espresso.q9media.com> References: <200205050246.g452ksE42808@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205050246.g452ksE42808@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jmallett@FreeBSD.org on Sat, May 04, 2002 at 07:46:54PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J. Mallett writes: > Change use of err(3) in situations where malloc(3) will be setting errno to > errx(3) since assuming malloc(3) sets errno is non-portable, and provides no > more useful information in the context of FreeBSD. Just to be clear, SUS did standardize ENOMEM, which is now part of POSIX.1-2001. Also, err(3) and errx(3) are unportable to begin with, so I don't think that's a valid argument. I agree that it provides no more useful information, with perhaps the exception of future locale- specific translations. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message