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SubjectRe: Memory overcommitting (was Re: http://www.redhat.com/redhat/)

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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