Héctor Luis Gimbatti wrote:
> I noticed there are (at least 2) diferent ways to handle a pledge
> error (eg: /usr/src/usr.bin/):
>
> If (pledge(args, NULL) == -1)
> . err(1, "pledge"); (wc; w; ..)
> . perror("pledge"); exit(EXIT_CODE); (vi; openssl; ...)
>
> I am not familiar with the case of use of each function but perror +
> exit isnt the same as err ? Can we use just one function (either error
> or perror) to handle pledge
>
> I've also seen the use of fatal(...) I guess this might be another
> mechanism which is useful.
Some of these are meant to conform to the style conventions of codebases
that are otherwise only imported (not developed by OpenBSD). For cases
like Open^WLibreSSL and Libre^WOpenSSH, though, patches are welcome.
There was a thread about this a few months ago. IIRC, doug@ and djm@
pointed out that all such codebases' compat files define common err.h
functions, and that those functions are nicer looking.
