On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:47:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Personally, I've always thought we were kidding ourselves by not doing
> the error checking you describe.
Amen. When I pointed this out a few years back, it was made it clear this
was a design choice : not providing a return value was simpler for driver
writers. I agree it's simpler and don't pretend to know what's best
for other driver writers. Sounds like a topic for 2.7 though.
grant
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