Anthony Kimball wrote:
>
> : > All I want is that a program gets NULL from malloc if there is no memory
> : > available. I find that to be a very fundamental thing about malloc.
>
> : Do you have a solution? We don't.
>
> Make an sbrk variant which will pre-allocate backing store.
> setenv MALLOC_PREALLOCATE
As soon as this application grabs all the memory, the next thing to
request more memory (not a malloc!) will cause the application to be
killed (largest application criteria). Change the criteria, and
*another* application gets killed. Any application getting killed is
a problem, you'll find very fast.
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