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.
