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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2018 09:07:03 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        Marcelo Araujo <araujo@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r334275 - head/lib/libc/string
Message-ID:  <16530.1527498423@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20180528155019.W2534@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201805280501.w4S51hbH046599@repo.freebsd.org> <20180528155019.W2534@besplex.bde.org>

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In message <20180528155019.W2534@besplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>Note that assert() can't be used in signal handlers since it is required
>to print to stderr due to C not having any output methods except stdio.

That is precisly why I added abort2(2) more than 10 years ago.

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