malloc does not return null when out of memory

[Darryl Okahata]

Barney Wolff <barney at databus.com> wrote:

> Shouldn't malloc return 0 when out of memory rather than returning
> an address that won't work?  I believe that was the complaint.  Presumably
> having NO_SWAPPING has something to do with it, but filling the swap
> might well do the same thing.

     Well, it goes against the man page, but FreeBSD typically never
returns NULL [*] when you run out of VM.  It's been this way for YEARS.

[*] -- Yes, it's annoying as h*ll, but that's the way it works.  I
       thought that there was a FAQ or handbook entry on this, but I
       couldn't find any.

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	Darryl Okahata
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