Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2000 18:43:22 -0500 | From | "Jim Nance" <> | Subject | Re: Overcommitable memory?? |
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:54:49PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote:
> malloc starts to fail, I'd happily use it. On Linux, I don't even have > malloc failing. And on no platform do I have a good way to detect when I'm
Just to clear up my understanding, are you saying that malloc() does not fail under linux for you? I realize that it is possible for it to promise you memory that it can not give you, but in practice I have found that it does return NULL when the system is out of memory.
Jim
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