Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:16:43 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_kern.c Message-ID: <28938.1076959003@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:13:55 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040216140303.63057O-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040216140303.63057O-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe rt Watson writes: >It seems like it all comes down to the perfectly reasonable desire to be >able to represent the following request: > > Userspace wants me to allocate some memory. I don't know how large > rediculous is, but I don't want to panic when I ask for something > rediculous and instead get a failure I can report. Sounds like we need to add a new flag: M_TELL_ME_IF_I_AM_STUPID -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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