Derek Price wrote: > Should this error still be exiting (EXIT_FAILURE) when this function > is defined to return NULL on failure?
In this case the error is not "memory exhausted", it is "cannot open /dev/zero". This can happen for example if someone is working in a chroot environment that is incorrectly set up. I think a clear error message is good in this case. But I agree it's hard to say in advance which behaviour is better. Bruno _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list Bug-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs