Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:49:04 -0500 (EST) | From | David Schwartz <> | Subject | Re: Memory overcommitting (was Re: http://www.redhat.com/redhat/) |
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For the record, that statement that I made is incorrect. Next time I'll check the source first.
DS
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, David Schwartz wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > > As I have understand, Linux returns ALWAYS success when using malloc(), > > because only reason why malloc() would fail, is memory overrun, and this > > will never happen in malloc(). > > Correct. Linux _always_ returns success in a malloc assuming the > parameters are reasonable.
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