>On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 12:12:55AM -0500, Michael McConville wrote: >> Ted Unangst wrote: >> > less has a peculiar estrdup function. unlike ecalloc etc., it only >> > prints an error but doesn't quit. But the callers don't seem to check >> > for null. And in many places they call a function called save() >> > instead. >> > >> > It is clearer to make estrdup() quit and use it everywhere. >> >> ok mmcc@ >> >> That said, error()'s name very strongly implies that it quits, so we >> should look into fixing that too. > >I don't think it implies anything of the sort, an error is still an >error if it doesn't kill the program.
Feeling a lot of dejavu here.
