James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> said:
[...]
> However it is handled, you now know that your memory allocation
> succeeded and you have real memory on your hands, not just an IOU. If
> there isn't any memory available, you get SIGBUSed - but then OOM
> conditions usually lead to death anyway.
You can hand out a IOU when you don't have the cash at hand, so you can go
farther that way. That is why IOUs are around in the first place: They
_are_ useful, even if more dangerous than hard cash.
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