On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:44:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > 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.
Words fail me. Kris
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