Subject: standards/2966: Useless comment in abort.c
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@taniemarie.solon.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/26/1996 07:10:52
>Number: 2966
>Category: standards
>Synopsis: Comment in abort.c is not helpful. :)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 26 05:20:00 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Peter Seebach
>Organization:
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>Release: -current of late November
>Environment:
System: NetBSD taniemarie 1.2B NetBSD 1.2B (SEEBS) #0: Fri Nov 22 00:03:56 CST 1996 seebs@taniemarie:/usr/src/sys/arch/amiga/compile/SEEBS amiga
>Description:
abort.c, in a comment, asks whether or not we should be calling
atexit()'d functions in abort. The answer is unambiguously "no";
those functions are called at *normal* program termination;
abort() causes abnormal program termination to occur, unless the
user catches SIGABRT and the handler doesn't return.
We have failed to document whether temporary files are removed,
however, this is a required piece of documentation. (I could
send-pr that separately, but it's a related issue. Except, of course,
that that should be in the man page.)
>How-To-Repeat:
"man abort"; "more abort.c"
>Fix:
We should probably remove or change the XXX comment in abort.c, and
our man page should state whether or not we remove temporary files;
I assume we don't.
>Audit-Trail:
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