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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:09:25 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] quantity vs. quality
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never?  what if malloc's datastructures are corrupt?

- erik

On Sun Jun 11 00:24:44 CDT 2006, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> Lucho's right in that the library should _never_ terminate on error,
> he is wrong in that this can only apply in an ideal world where all
> returns from library functions are checked.  But we may be compounding
> his error by not auditing /sys/src and adding error checking where it
> ought to be present and removing Plan 9's contribution to this state
> of affairs.  Then Plan 9 gets to hold a bigger chunk of the high moral
> ground and also stops encouraging this approach.