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Re: Delete abortion joke

From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>

To: javier--CbphpPOVok9WFxGWvC7CbkqlsxDZyT at jasp dot net

Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org

Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 23:34:33 -0400

Subject: Re: Delete abortion joke

References: <orin883lcl.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org> <E1fDLZU-00076y-KO@fencepost.gnu.org> <5d2af1ce-b1ed-c10f-bbbb-d7716a6d4ffa@redhat.com> <E1fDiAP-0003af-7O@fencepost.gnu.org> <20180502062643.GA4804@domone> <1525244426.2332.19.camel@sempati>

Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Current behavior of abort() is unacceptable: it terminates the process > unconditionally. glibc users should be free to decide whether a call to > abort() succeeds. It should be a user right, not a developer imposition. The GNU system already gives users this control. For instance, you can run the program under GDB and put a breakpoint on abort. That's how I normally run Emacs, for instance. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.