malloc does not return null when out of memory
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Jul 23 20:16:14 PDT 2003
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:34:27PM -0400, Gabor wrote:
> Here is the tail end of the output. It dies when trying to poke at
> the memory using memset. If I just malloc without the memset, it
> never even dies.
Ah, the annual "memory overcommit" thread. I thought we were overdue
for one.
Kris
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