On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Gisle Vanem wrote:

>> @@ -143,16 +144,16 @@
>> /* Can't allocate iovecs; just send the first request. */
>> sendreq = server->qhead;
>>
>> - count = send(server->tcp_socket, sendreq->data, sendreq->len, 0);
>> + scount = send(server->tcp_socket, sendreq->data, sendreq->len, 0);
>
> I fail to see the point of the else-part. If allocating N iovecs fails,
> we're toast anyway. send() may allocate process memory too. And later on
> anyway when the answers should be processed.

Reading this code again, I can only agree with you. Let's cut out the else
part and have it fail normally if malloc() fails.

> Is there a story behind this?

Probably, but since the original author isn't reading this I bet we won't get
any info on that... :-(

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