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To: "Wes Peters" <wes@softweyr.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil ecalloc.c emalloc.3 emalloc.c erealloc.c estrdup.c Makefile libutil.h 
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 00:24:50 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <001c01c1133a$f2b9ac50$24b244cc@blabber> "Wes Peters" writes:
: I agree with Alfred, I really don't like the idea of a program exiting 
: willy-nilly and feel this will encourage developers to do so.  It is 
: marginally better than not testing return values at all, and hoping 
: for a core file, but only marginally so.  The fact that it has been 
: done alot in existing code doesn't make it a good practice, just a
: common one.

And they should *NEVER* be used in a library.  Libraries that exit
instead of returning an error are lame beyond words.  I don't think we
want to introduce APIs that are safe in cat.c, but unsafe in libc.

Warner

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