Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:44:11 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Gabor <gabor@vmunix.com> Subject: Re: malloc does not return null when out of memory Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030723234250.052821e8@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <20030723201536.A22031@citusc.usc.edu> References: <20030723173427.GA72876@vmunix.com> <20030723173427.GA72876@vmunix.com>
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At 08:15 PM 7/23/2003 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>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.
But why does the man page for malloc (3) say,
If malloc() fails, a NULL pointer is returned.
---Mike
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