At Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:37:20 +0900,
(BJINMEI Tatuya / [EMAIL PROTECTED]@C#:H(B wrote:
(B> Note also that other *BSDs and Solaris use the "segfault" logic. The
(B> freeaddrinfo implementation in the "libbind" library as a part of the
(B> ISC BIND package, which many UNIX-like OS vendors adopt (perhaps with
(B> vendor-specific modifications though), also segfaults against a NULL
(B> argument.
(B>
(B> So, although consistency might in general be a good thing, the real
(B> world's examples show we just have variations.
(B>
(B
(BSorry to come in late on this, but you know I was asleep. One quick
(Bcomment. It is easier to find and fix the bug that relating to a
(BNULL pointer if the program seg faults than if it continues blithely
(Bon. I think we should stick with failing early.
(B
(BLater,
(BGeorge
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