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Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) 
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On 07 Jul 1999 20:57:16 +0200 
 Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> wrote:

 > Don't use err() indiscriminately after a malloc() failure; malloc()
 > doesn't set errno.

This is a bug in malloc(3), is it not?

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>



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