From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 22 07:48:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08040 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com ([208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08033 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-114.camalott.com [208.229.74.114]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA19749; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 09:49:11 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA00600; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:56:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:56:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808212256.RAA00600@detlev.UUCP> To: imp@village.org CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808210310.VAA26683@harmony.village.org> (message from Warner Losh on Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:10:46 -0600) Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808202326.SAA07936@detlev.UUCP> <199808201619.KAA20970@harmony.village.org> <199808210310.VAA26683@harmony.village.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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. The message was that OpenBSD went through their entire source tree. libc is small compared to the number of executables that use realloc. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message