Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] msvc: opendir: use xmalloc

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>
>> The motivation is just to avoid having to deal with the error, like we
>> do other places. It's not a big deal though. I could also set errno to
>> ENOMEM and return NULL if that's preferable. I just don't see how it
>> is.
>
> I don't disagree; just fishing for a commit message. :)
>

Yes, but after stopping to think about it a tad more, I tend to like
it working more similar to existing POSIX implementations.

I am adding a commit message this time, though! ;)

>> I also slightly dislike setting an error not listed in POSIX'
>> documentation of opendir, even though it's probably allowed.
>
> For future reference, here's what POSIX has to say.
>
>        Implementations shall not generate a different error
>        number from one required by this volume of
>        POSIX.1-2008 for an error condition described in this
>        volume of POSIX.1-2008, but may generate additional
>        errors unless explicitly disallowed for a particular
>        function.
>
> So ENOMEM would have been allowed from that front.
>

Thanks for the clarification.