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From: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiserfsprogs: lib/misc.c: why die() aborts?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:49:47 +0300
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To: Domenico Andreoli <cavok@tiscali.it>
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Hi

On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 19:18, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> in trying to figure out what is the unpack program in reiserfsprogs
> and if it supposed to be distributed in the debian package,

No, it should not be distributed

>  i came to
> the function die() in lib/misc.c.
> 
> i'm seeing it regularly aborts the execution instead of using the
> usual exit(EXIT_FAILURE). shouldn't it be more polite or it is not for
> public use?
> 
> what is unpack supposed to do?
> 
It is used for reiserfsprogs debugging

> cheers
> domenico
> 
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