On 2008-05-14, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>and when the program gets killed because out of memory all this
>>will be deleted from the memory?
>
> Yes. When a process is killed, all of the memory it was using
> is released.
>
>>so there is no way that you can, by accident, fill your whole
>>harddrive and make it unusable?
>
> Of course not. Where do you see a connection between memory
> and your hard drive?
>
> Now, you can certainly fill your hard drive by running your
> little infinite loop application and storing the results in a
> file:
Again, that's only a problem if the OS lets it be problem. No
real OS will let a drive become unusable because of a runaway
user program. Any decent filesystem can provide per-user disk
quotas and a "reserve" of space for system/root use.
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