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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:15:25 +0200
From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] quantity vs. quality
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in /n/sources/nemo/sys/src/liberror

there is such beast, we made it for Plan B.
I found it useful when error handling required a lot
of nesting and checking, because simply calling error sufficed.

However, at the end, I still had the problem of what to do with the error.
In may times, btw, it was just clean up to avoid messing things up, and then
sysfatal().


On 6/12/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> actually, to repeat my serious question: waserror() and friends in user
> mode. Crazy, doable, or just plain bad idea?
>
> thanks
>
> ron
>
>