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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: zsh exhausting swap
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:49:13 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199909131049.MAA14081@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:00:43 +0000


Bart Schaefer wrote:

> The crash eventually occurs when a buffer as large as zsh needs cannot
> be allocated.
> 
> However, I don't understand what you expect zsh to do differently.

One problem is that sizeline() doens't test if it gets a NULL back
from `realloc()'.
The problem is that we would have to add error-catching code to all
places where this is used...

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de


             reply	other threads:[~1999-09-13 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-13 10:49 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-08 15:25 Brad Forschinger
1999-09-08 17:19 ` Mike Fletcher
1999-09-09 17:00   ` Bart Schaefer

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