MaskRay added inline comments.

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Comment at: lldb/source/Host/common/PseudoTerminal.cpp:149
+  int r = ptsname_r(m_primary_fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
+  assert(r == 0);
+  return buf;
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labath wrote:
> mgorny wrote:
> > labath wrote:
> > > mgorny wrote:
> > > > I would really feel better with a real error handling here. It 
> > > > shouldn't be hard to use `ErrorOr` here.
> > > Yeah, but what are you going to do with that value? Pass it to the 
> > > caller? The existing callers are ignoring the error return anyway, and I 
> > > don't want to add error handling everywhere as afaict, this function 
> > > can't fail unless the user messes up the master state (which is not 
> > > something I want to support).
> > I get your point but I've literally wasted days because of missing error 
> > handling, so I'd really preferred if we wouldn't make it even worse. Though 
> > I guess `assert` is good enough.
> In some ways it's even better because it will point you straight to the place 
> where the assumption is violated, whereas a propagated logic error can 
> manifest itself much farther away (or not at all). :)
If `ptsname/ptsname_r` fails, buf will be uninitialized and trigger a 
use-of-uninitialized-value error.


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