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		junke on Sept 20, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GoDoc: package letsencrypt The behavior is different if a panic occurs, isn't it? But is there any chance that this particular initialization code might panic in the first place?

schmichael on Sept 20, 2016 [–]

Given the current code and no races against the values being initialized: no, there is no chance for a panic.

alpb on Sept 20, 2016 | [–]

This is not a good assumption. The code will panic, for instance when it can't allocate memory, or runs into signal handling issues.

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