there's nothing inviolate about fixing the library to do what you want. for example, in this case, the default sysfatal behaviour could stay the same, but it would return the value returned by _sysfatal, say a string. then we look at all the places it's used and see if it needs any tweaking.
or something like that. if you can agree on some better implementation that satisfies everyone then that's what we do. routines like sysfatal end up in the library as someone thought they were common idioms in a bunch of existing programmes. sometimes the idiom needs refinement after it's been seen in place. --jim On Sat Jun 10 19:07:50 EDT 2006, [email protected] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > sure you can. sysfatal calls _sysfatal to do the deed. redefine that to > > call your > > fancy cleanup routine and you're golden. > > wrong approach. _sysfatal has no idea what's going on. The code that > called the library call has every idea what's going on. > > > > ron
