Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264396AbUI0Myu (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:54:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264503AbUI0Myu (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:54:50 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:53446 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264396AbUI0Mys (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:54:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:54:41 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Marcelo Tosatti , Alan Cox Cc: Thomas Habets , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock Message-ID: <20040927125441.GG3934@marowsky-bree.de> References: <200409230123.30858.thomas@habets.pp.se> <20040923234520.GA7303@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <1096031971.9791.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200409242158.40054.thomas@habets.pp.se> <1096060549.10797.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040927104120.GA30364@logos.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040927104120.GA30364@logos.cnet> X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 571 Lines: 18 On 2004-09-27T07:41:20, Marcelo Tosatti said: > BTW,I think a lot of applications do not gracefully handle -ENOMEM? > > I suppose most of them just fail and bailout with -ENOMEM. > > No? True enough. Most of them don't even handle malloc() returning NULL. That be their problem, though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/