Re: Overcommit and calloc()

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

"Kelly Yancey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>   Ahh...but wouldn't the bzero() touch all of the memory just allocated
> functionally making it non-overcommit?

No. If it were an "non-overcomitting malloc", it would return NULL and
set errno to ENOMEM, instead of dumping core.

DES
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