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Re: Completion of error handling

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2010, 20:25 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> wrote:
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>> This isn't an opinion; because it's open source, you can actually look
>> at the source code and find out that many system calls don't do memory
>> allocation at all.
>
> I agree to your view because you distinguish between the available
> software implementations here.
> Are you also interested to complete error detection and corresponding
> exception handling?

I think if you can demonstrate actual situations where lack of error handling could cause: a) user confusion; or b) data loss/corruption

...then it will be easy to get people to accept your patches to fix the error handling. If you can't reproduce or at least describe such a case in detail, however, people probably won't be too excited about it. git developers seem to concentrate more on concrete problems than theoretical ones.

Avery
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  1. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  2. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2010
  3. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  4. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2010
  5. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  6. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010
  7. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  8. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010
  9. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  10. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010
  11. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  12. Markus ElfringFeb 11, 2010
  13. Andreas EricssonFeb 16, 2010
  14. Markus ElfringFeb 18, 2010

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