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Subject: Re: [9fans] same functions everywhere
From: paurea@plan9.escet.urjc.es
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:02:58 +0200
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> The argument I think carries the day is that error handling is an
> application-specific issue, not a library issue.  I have written emalloc
> several times but each application tends to do something different
> in the error case.  That is the real point.
>


Most of them do exactly the same, calling sysfatal.  The only
different thing is the error string and sometimes, it is just "out of
memory" or variations on this.



							Gorka