Re: rpcgen(1), issues with System XVI

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 06:03:37PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 02:29:04PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>  > malloc sets errno, why use errx?
> 
> historically malloc didn't, and rpcgen is Olde...

I think the better reason is that the errno value set by malloc tends to
be not very useful -- ENOMEM.

Joerg