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To: Naoki Hamada <nao@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: MALLOC(3) writes to stderr... 
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:19:33 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <199702260349.MAA00204@sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp>, Naoki Hamada writes
:
>Stephen wrote:
>>Although not enforced by the kernel, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 have a
>>conventional use that should always be respected.  If you don't want to
>>see stderr output, open /dev/null as descriptor 2.
>
>Thanks. I'm going to fix the daemon in this way.
>
>Also MALLOC(3) should be changed to keep silent unless explicitly
>indicated, souldn't it?

Malloc(3) would be in it's good right to simply coredump your process
in any case where it will write to fd#2.  It only does this after
detected interface violations.

I have considered adding a callback for reporting these kind of violations
so that programs could register other handlers for it.

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