Re: rpcgen(1), issues with System XVI

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:22:27PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger 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.

That prints "Cannot allocate memory", which is as good as anything
else for this...

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David A. Holland
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