On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <199904141501.laa25...@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, Mikhail Teterin 
> writes:
> >Poul-Henning Kamp once stated:
> >
> >=malloc() on FreeBSD returns NULL when it cannot allocate the memory
> >=asked for.
> >
> >=If you have an example where this is not the case I would VERY
> >=much like to see it.
> >
> >I believe, a number of examples were given, when the use of the non-NULL
> >pointer returned by malloc resulted in the program being killed.
> 
> No, the examples I have seen showed the system killing a (somewhat)
> random large process in an attempt to avoid deadlock.
> 
> I guess you can interpret it the way above if you insist on using a
> very narrow application oriented focus.
> 
> Ignoring the larger issues is not a modus operandi I subscribe to.
> 
> Anyway, what you're asking for is really resource reservation.
> 
> Sorry FreeBSD doesn't support resource reservation for memory.

mlock()? BTW, why can't anyone explain why the old behavior WAS THAT
the process would get NULL? Now it's this...

> 
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> Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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