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From: Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)
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"Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> wrote:
> OTOH, though, FreeBSD's malloc() is very unlikely to return an out
> of memory error.

Why is that?

What happens if the process hits its resource limits?

Cheers


Jon
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