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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:15:36 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gabor <gabor@vmunix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: malloc does not return null when out of memory
Message-ID:  <20030723201536.A22031@citusc.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030723173427.GA72876@vmunix.com>; from gabor@vmunix.com on Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:34:27PM -0400
References:  <20030723173427.GA72876@vmunix.com>

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:34:27PM -0400, Gabor wrote:

> Here is the tail end of the output.  It dies when trying to poke at
> the memory using memset.  If I just malloc without the memset, it
> never even dies.

Ah, the annual "memory overcommit" thread.  I thought we were overdue
for one.

Kris

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