Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock

Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-27T12:54:50Z

On 2004-09-27T07:41:20,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> said:

> BTW,I think a lot of applications do not gracefully handle -ENOMEM?
>
> I suppose most of them just fail and bailout with -ENOMEM.
>
> No?

True enough. Most of them don't even handle malloc() returning NULL.
That be their problem, though.