On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Here at whistle we are trying to remember about a conversation > > regarding malloc that occured recently. Maybe others can help. > > > > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) > > can now return with a failure. Is that true? > > Yes; it's necessary to do this to allow some chance of avoiding > deadlock.
Ouch! Is everything in src-sys already checking the return value of an M_WAITOK? > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ [email protected] > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ [email protected] > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ [email protected] > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ [email protected] _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
