At 08:15 PM 7/23/2003 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:34:27PM -0400, Gabor wrote:

> Here is the tail end of the output.  It dies when trying to poke at
> the memory using memset.  If I just malloc without the memset, it
> never even dies.

Ah, the annual "memory overcommit" thread.  I thought we were overdue
for one.


But why does the man page for malloc (3) say,

If malloc() fails, a NULL pointer is returned.

        ---Mike
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