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Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()? |
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Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:19:34 +0100 |
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Derek Price wrote:
> Should this error still be exiting (EXIT_FAILURE) when this function
> is defined to return NULL on failure?
In this case the error is not "memory exhausted", it is "cannot open
/dev/zero". This can happen for example if someone is working in a chroot
environment that is incorrectly set up. I think a clear error message is
good in this case. But I agree it's hard to say in advance which behaviour
is better.
Bruno
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, (continued)
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Derek Price, 2005/03/02
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Derek Price, 2005/03/03
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Bruno Haible, 2005/03/03
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Derek Price, 2005/03/03
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?,
Bruno Haible <=
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Derek Price, 2005/03/03
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Bruno Haible, 2005/03/03
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Derek Price, 2005/03/03
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Derek Price, 2005/03/03
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Bruno Haible, 2005/03/03
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Derek Price, 2005/03/03
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Bruno Haible, 2005/03/04
- Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?, Derek Price, 2005/03/04