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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Threadcreate() failure value?
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> I realize that just blowing the process away on this type of failure is
> a very reasonable thing to do, but in a very few cases here, we need to
> recover and stumble along in the case of such failure, and try to at
> least get to a sane state before dying.

If you really have a need for this, then let me know and I'll do something.
The most likely solution is to have a user-supplied error function
like the regular expression and draw libraries have.

But I'm not going to spend time on this for its own sake.

Russ