Re: FreeBSD doesn't find my CD-RW and sometimes my DVD

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Lia Maggioni wrote: > ACD0 is only the DVD , CD-RW (a Liteon 52x 24x 52x) isn't found at all!! > Literally from DMESG: > > ata0-slave: ATA identify retries excedeed > > and sometimes it doesn't find my DVD too , with the message : > > ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exced

Re: malloc does not return null when out of memory

On 24 Jul, Pete French punched keys in this particular order: > Its not bogus - the trouble is that you cant tell at the time malloc returns > whether the pointer will be useable or not. You only find that out when > you try and use it, and whether theres any space or not depends oon what > else ma