From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:25:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Completion of error handling
Message-ID: <32541b131002021225k19ef94b2me8ef40cd502b85d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B6886CE.9040602@web.de>

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> wrote:
>> 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