From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 20:10:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21181 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:10:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA21175 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0z9haY-0003Bo-00; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:10:06 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id VAA26683; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:10:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808210310.VAA26683@harmony.village.org> To: joelh@gnu.org Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.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> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:10:46 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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