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) oops M_WAITOK.. > > can now return with a failure. Is that true? > > Yes; it's necessary to do this to allow some chance of avoiding > deadlock. I can't find this in the archives.. can you remember a keyword that would pull it up? I've looked in.. The archives freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers contain the following items relevant to `malloc AND M_WAITOK AND 1998' (and similar) It seems to me that there must be a lot of places where the return value of MALLOC is not tested when M_WAITOK is set. > > -- > \\ 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
