[Was] Resolving the licensing issues.

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 03 March 2006 5:07 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Another thing. xfree(), xmalloc() etc are rather non-informative:
>
> xfree - free and set to null? or free if CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP?

I believe the x prefix means "die rather than returning failure".  We have a 
number of examples, xreadlink, xgethostbyname...  So if you use something 
with an x prefix, you never have to check for a failure return, it'll do  
bb_perror_msg_and_die() rather than return.

The bb_ prefix is utterly arbitrary, it basically means "this is really really 
old code".

Rob
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