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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2017-10-30 10:01:12 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2017-11-08 08:36:50 +0100
commit93c33be846873f3be30a7f2afda90dfd9067ba07 (patch)
tree44110e2cc2bca11fe90654f518ce47ed8e9a8a85
parent55f780fe47e56c2da45546a398e96a3de96bb0f5 (diff)
downloadman-pages-93c33be846873f3be30a7f2afda90dfd9067ba07.tar.gz
sigaltstack.2: Add explicit error handling to example code
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/sigaltstack.211
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man2/sigaltstack.2 b/man2/sigaltstack.2
index f1506cfba0..189db1b3ae 100644
--- a/man2/sigaltstack.2
+++ b/man2/sigaltstack.2
@@ -295,12 +295,17 @@ The following code segment demonstrates the use of
stack_t ss;
ss.ss_sp = malloc(SIGSTKSZ);
-if (ss.ss_sp == NULL)
- /* Handle error */;
+if (ss.ss_sp == NULL) {
+ perror("malloc");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+}
+
ss.ss_size = SIGSTKSZ;
ss.ss_flags = 0;
if (sigaltstack(&ss, NULL) == \-1)
- /* Handle error */;
+ perror("sigaltstack");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+}
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