From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avery Pennarun Subject: Re: Completion of error handling Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:25:05 -0500 Message-ID: <32541b131002021225k19ef94b2me8ef40cd502b85d@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B68249F.6070004@web.de> <4B6873AC.4030303@web.de> <4B688042.8090400@web.de> <32541b131002021149g6ffe703erd9e25621e4305a52@mail.gmail.com> <4B6886CE.9040602@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Nicolas Pitre , git@vger.kernel.org To: Markus Elfring X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 02 21:25:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NcPJY-0007In-BI for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:25:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754382Ab0BBUZ2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:25:28 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.210.189]:50881 "EHLO mail-yx0-f189.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753976Ab0BBUZ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:25:27 -0500 Received: by yxe27 with SMTP id 27so457959yxe.4 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:25:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=cSNVDc3ltF2QE+chGAHgEk0IlJVMHVIjejk1MRagsic=; b=W1qrPFNuxlFCFJk2bGk8XWjuCScjuLav9Do6/GT2+2aEf6AZRCG4Uh7wUrdwOnhcaM TUWgD7iB7pY8R7QNZHo3Z3ZrnxXGIHJ74bmSCSaGyjOcdMwl90a1u4F1nTAy2S2dKfYa 0+N5cUJLJohuho3fHVnfiBSXg/EcG6GybyLvA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=It3/R3ivqMWYGAacsGTyGB4o31xzfro7rll7Gc9CNLE3S6L7rXs+ux6b56jur84BEh QcZnDr45RSHMmr2T+7rA9y/zy/4Z4oXu8Mqi0Xnjep+dPWNDBh5cZCvpHm1T1SgWdGiF L9XHmzTBIKhTS4fkLjWkKpgMPbP/4WoM1wEUI= Received: by 10.150.120.7 with SMTP id s7mr9116949ybc.345.1265142325172; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:25:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B6886CE.9040602@web.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Markus Elfring wrote: >> This isn't an opinion; because it's open source, you can actually look >> at the source code and find out that many system calls don't do memory >> allocation at all. > > I agree to your view because you distinguish between the available > software implementations here. > Are you also interested to complete error detection and corresponding > exception handling? I think if you can demonstrate actual situations where lack of error handling could cause: a) user confusion; or b) data loss/corruption ...then it will be easy to get people to accept your patches to fix the error handling. If you can't reproduce or at least describe such a case in detail, however, people probably won't be too excited about it. git developers seem to concentrate more on concrete problems than theoretical ones. Avery