From: Alex Musolino <alex@musolino.id.au>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] libmp and error handling
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:38:20 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14F31F6EA805615CEA96977406C71209@musolino.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D61860A06A3D437F1980A9EDAC27510F@gmail.com>
> There's both an easy way and a hard way to fix this. The easy way
> would be to document the sysfatal call in the manpage and mention
> that sysfatal should be overridden in order to change the error
> handling. The hard way would be to remove the sysfatal calls in
> libmp, then change the rest of the system so that it catches the
> errors.
Or split the difference and introduce something like Blethal(2). Then
change the existing programs (less than 40 by my count) to supply
sysfatal as the handler.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-21 4:08 UTC|newest]
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2020-10-21 3:56 covertusername967
2020-10-21 4:08 ` Alex Musolino [this message]
2020-10-21 4:27 ` covertusername967
2020-10-21 13:53 ` ori
2020-10-24 23:52 ` covertusername967
2020-10-25 0:25 ` ori
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