On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@xxxxxx> wrote: >> This isn't an opinion; because it's open source, you can actually look >> at the source code and find out that many system calls don't do memory >> allocation at all. > > I agree to your view because you distinguish between the available > software implementations here. > Are you also interested to complete error detection and corresponding > exception handling? I think if you can demonstrate actual situations where lack of error handling could cause: a) user confusion; or b) data loss/corruption ...then it will be easy to get people to accept your patches to fix the error handling. If you can't reproduce or at least describe such a case in detail, however, people probably won't be too excited about it. git developers seem to concentrate more on concrete problems than theoretical ones. Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html