Re: svn commit: rev 1460

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 kfogel@tigris.org wrote:
> Stop creating a new subpool for each error, and clear all unreturned
> (i.e., locally handled) errors. Partially based on a patch from Ben
> Collins <bcollins@debian.org>.

This approach seems very dangerous. It works for the two things we
currently do to handle errors (ignore them, or pass them back to the
caller, perhaps annotated), but any more complicated recovery operations
must obey the terrible constraint that they must not call any routine
which might ignore an error in the process of its operation, or the error
being handled becomes invalid.

Allocating a separate pool for each error might seem costly because of the
8K minimum, but really, that space will be reclaimed pretty quickly no
matter what happens to the error.

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Received on Sat Mar 9 20:18:28 2002