malloc does not return null when out of memory

[Mike Tancsa]

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.

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