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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:27:35 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: number of lines in a file, given its size
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970113222735.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970113112240.00a38800@dimaga.com>; from Eivind Eklund on Jan 13, 1997 11:22:41 %2B0100
References:  <3.0.32.19970113112240.00a38800@dimaga.com>

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As Eivind Eklund wrote:

> >malloc errors are bogus, too. :)  The hell will break afterwards
> >anyway, so it doesn't matter whether it returns `okshells' or
> >something else.
> 
> Race condition and possibly (very minor) security problem - I would have it
> print "No memory" and exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

Hmm.  I think calling abort() is better.  It gets syslogged.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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