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Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc: Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 07 Jul 1999 21:12:47 +0200
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Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> 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?

According to the Single Unix Specification, yes.

   <URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/malloc.html>

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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