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  • From: David Dick <ddick AT cpan.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] [PATCH] to remove exit statements from libct
  • Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:14:40 +1100

On 01/03/10 08:44, Christos Zoulas wrote:
On Mar 1, 8:18am, ddick AT cpan.org (David Dick) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [freetds] [PATCH] to remove exit statements from libct

| On 01/03/10 00:56, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
|> Hi,
|> some calls check internal behaviour witch should not raise (unless
|> in situations where an exit is really necessary). However login and
|> token should not exit as you detect correctly. I'll apply a modified
|> version.
|
| So the remaining exits would designate a client programming error as
| distinct from a server programming error / protocol error?

Libraries should not exit; they should indicate the reason for the error,
and generally avoid printing to stderr. The source of the error is really
not relevant.

100% agreed, i'm just trying to understand if any exit statements are going to be left in the libct library and if so, why.




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