Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:10:46 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review Message-ID: <199808210310.VAA26683@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:26:03 CDT." <199808202326.SAA07936@detlev.UUCP> References: <199808202326.SAA07936@detlev.UUCP> <199808201619.KAA20970@harmony.village.org> <xzplnoj8uq9.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no>
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In message <199808202326.SAA07936@detlev.UUCP> Joel Ray Holveck writes: : Not to mention that on a large number of programs, memory shortage is : fatal so the block will be free'd soon anyway. Our libc should not force this memory shortage policy on all programs, even if most of them will exit soon in the short on memory case. While many are sloppy about this, there are many that do deal gracefully with an out of memory condition by, for example, flushing caches or by "garbage collecting" objects that they would otherwise continue to use. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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