Re: rpcgen(1), issues with System XVI

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

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 01:29:25AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 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...

The point is that any malloc failure will provide it, so it is
completely redundant.

Joerg