Linda Walsh writes:
> > Removing overcommit might make malloc() return null, but that's only one
> > of a host of ways to allocate memory. The other methods don't have a
> > return value. So arguing that "overcommit is bad, because it breaks the
> > malloc() return value" is pointless.
>
> What other methods? calloc - ENOMEM, open <object>, ENOMEM, fork:
> ENOMEM. Etc. All what you would expect if there was NOMEM.
Stack "allocation". No error code available.
Regards,
Richard....
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