[pacman-dev] [7] remove exit() calls from libalpm

[Aurelien Foret]

VMiklos wrote:
> ok, here is an updated patch:
> http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/drop_malloc.diff
> 
> i haven't added any extra FREE() for other allocated memory, if the
> patch is ok, then i can add

It is not that simple in all circumstances.

For instance, you chose to set pm_errno in db_open and pkg_new, but the 
pm_errno value can be overwritten.
See code chunks where pkg_new is called: in case of a failure, pm_errno 
is set afterwards, meaning that the pm_errno value set in pkg_new is lost.
It may or may not be more interesting to set pm_errno in the offending 
function, or upon return of the function.
It depends on what is more meaningful from the frontend point of view...

This is what I meant with this item of the TODO:
"- review errors handling (globalise pm_errno usage, improve error
meanings)"
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Aurelien