malloc does not return null when out of memory

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:44:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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.

Words fail me.

Kris
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