[GNUnet-developers] Re: Gratuitous gcry_fast_random_poll

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 05 May 2004 21:13:11 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann said:

> Yes, but compare it with pthread: you have error checking locks
> (robust locks) and fast locks.  And everybody just uses the fast locks
> and never checks the error.

Which is bad because you won't detect logical errors in your program.

> It's not a good thing if a library gives an assertion failure, unless
> there really is an internal error.  An error value returned would be

It is an internal error.  The library is used in a non-allowed way and
all shit may happen later.  Be glad that it tells you that - even if
you don't want so.  It is not different from free(3) which might abort
the process if it detects an invalid state of the heaps.

  Werner