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Diffstat (limited to 'src/lib/err/torerr.c')
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diff --git a/src/lib/err/torerr.c b/src/lib/err/torerr.c index 8d8f694f1d..f9e139f967 100644 --- a/src/lib/err/torerr.c +++ b/src/lib/err/torerr.c @@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ * * \brief Handling code for unrecoverable emergencies, at a lower level * than the logging code. + * + * There are plenty of places that things can go wrong in Tor's backend + * libraries: the allocator can fail, the locking subsystem can fail, and so + * on. But since these subsystems are used themselves by the logging module, + * they can't use the logging code directly to report their errors. + * + * As a workaround, the logging code provides this module with a set of raw + * fds to be used for reporting errors in the lowest-level Tor code. */ #include "orconfig.h" |