On 13 February 2012 14:04, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > I consider abort() on OOM somewhat eccentric. abort() is for > programming errors. Resource shortage is an environmental error that is > sometimes (but not always) caused by a programming error. > > I'd rather inconvenience programmers (by making it a little bit harder > to debug programming errors that cause OOM) than confuse users with > inappropriate scary "crashes".
I think the rationale for aborting here is that you're already accepting "program just dies" behaviour for out-of-memory errors via the kernel's OOM-killer... -- PMM
