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Date:      23 Jul 2001 06:49:57 +0200
From:      Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil ecalloc.c emalloc.3 emalloc.c erealloc.c estrdup.c Makefile libutil.h
Message-ID:  <5lr8v88d1m.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:38:12 -0500"
References:  <assar@FreeBSD.org> <200107230223.f6N2Nfg14201@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010722223812.L49508@sneakerz.org>

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Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> writes:
> I think that e*() shouldn't be encouraged, but it would be useful to
> remove the N redundant copies of it that we have in our tree.

Why should it be discouraged?  Or rather, what she the code in the
tree that already does exactly this do?

> Perhaps the manpages can discourage use of it, explaining that
> exiting is not coping with a problem?  I think that would solve
> all of our concerns as well as allow us to remove duplicated code.

`Only use these functions when the only action on failure is to exit
the program' ?

/assar

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