Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

[Jason Thorpe]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:31:38 -0700 (PDT) 
 Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 > :- I might be creating a very limited embedded system with just a few
 > :  small processes that are all written to *handle* out of memory situations.
 > 
 >     Really?  Then setting resource limits from within each program is not
 >     a problem now is it?  Then it will get a nice malloc failure instead
 >     of getting killed by the kernel.

See chris's point... Maybe you have one process that needs 10MB and a few
others that need 300K - 1MB.  Resource limits are not useful in this
scenario.

...and, who said anything about using malloc()? :-)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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