On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:21:03PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > True, but running out of memory is, in traditional Unix, an irrecove- > rable error condition, and if it occurs in the kernel, its only option > IS, in fact, to panic.
It can also return ENOMEM. Userland doesn't always cope with it gracefuly, but the idea is that it should. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
