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Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:00:05 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] quantity vs. quality
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the converse is that every dumb little app now has to handle
a lot of error conditions.  this is also not robust.

- erik

On Sat Jun 10 18:06:50 CDT 2006, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
> > You are concentrating too much on the particular example I gave (emalloc)
> > and not on the issue of exiting from a library. I don't think it is a
> > library job to decide whether the application should die or not.
> 
> that is a very key point.
> 
> ron