> 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?
Probably not, no. I had some patches from Andrzej who was trying to do it just for the mbuf allocator case; there's definitely a call for someone to take the time to clean things up. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
