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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

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