Re: valloc()?
Bruno Haible <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:19:34 +0100
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Derek Price wrote: > Should this error still be exiting (EXIT_FAILURE) when this function > is defined to return NULL on failure? In this case the error is not "memory exhausted", it is "cannot open /dev/zero". This can happen for example if someone is working in a chroot environment that is incorrectly set up. I think a clear error message is good in this case. But I agree it's hard to say in advance which behaviour is better. Bruno