From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5617 invoked from network); 13 Sep 1999 10:49:33 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 13 Sep 1999 10:49:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 4647 invoked by alias); 13 Sep 1999 10:49:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7799 Received: (qmail 4640 invoked from network); 13 Sep 1999 10:49:17 -0000 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:49:13 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199909131049.MAA14081@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:00:43 +0000 Subject: Re: zsh exhausting swap 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 -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de