Hi Pranit, On Fri, 20 May 2016, Pranit Bauva wrote: > Frankly, I have no idea what you mean by libification but I will use > error() since efforts for libification have already started. The term "libification" is frequently used in the Git project: it means to convert code that was formerly used in a standalone program to make it usable as a library function. The main differences: - in the standalone program, you can get away with calling die() when anything goes wrong. Not so in a library function: you need to give the caller a chance to fail gracefully, or even to continue. - in a standalone program, you can be sloppy and "let exit() clean up", i.e. omit free() calls or even close() calls. In library functions, this is not possible. - in a standalone program, you may mess with the stdio handles. This is an absolute no-go in library functions. There are other differences, of course. The gist is that you have to be a lot more careful for library functions. Ciao, Johannes -- 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