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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:08:35 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        audit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: finger strdup patch 
Message-ID:  <9424.995972915@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 01:46:02 MST." <20010724014602.A5532@xor.obsecurity.org> 

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 01:46:02 MST, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> This is a slight consolidation from OpenBSD: it checks the return
> values of a few more strdup()s and saves a few bytes on the binary
> size, as a bonus :-)

But it introdoces a new and mostly useless error message that isn't
documented anywhere.  It should complain with:

* "Memory allocation failure"
* "Cannot allocate memory"
* One of the other memoray failure messages that users are used to
  seeing.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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