malloc does not return null when out of memory

[Barney Wolff]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:01:06PM -0400, Gabor wrote:
> ...
> Here is another test.  This box has swap and I get a null pointer even
> though ulimit -a says memory unlimited.
> ...
> 5242 0x2801d000
> 5243 0x0
> No more mem
> # ulimit -a
> data(kbytes)         524288   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

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