From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 15 14:42:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (unknown [208.149.16.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43883151D2 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA31520; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:36:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from alk) From: Anthony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:36:58 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: chuckr@picnic.mat.net Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap-related problems References: <14102.16644.178732.291963@avalon.east> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14102.23330.685207.587287@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Chuck Robey on Thu, 15 April: : No, we are not. Malloc does in fact fail on those conditions. Again, it seems to be a reasonable disagreement over semantics. To my mind, you haven't allocated memory successfully unless you can use it without processes dying, in this case including your self. To yours, the fact that you might be able to use the memory with no further program action suffices to constitute a successful allocation. No one is denigrating the system. We just disagree about what constitutes a successful allocation of memory. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message