FreeTDS Development Group

[christos AT zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)]

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.

christos