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?

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