From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: malloc() failure counter
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:19:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8DFA7C.6080604@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAMvbhFCzKH-4_kspOfgCOEPZpsr1MVoVJogKmupF=FgtXE4GQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/17/2012 03:02 PM, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I have a user application that tries a malloc() or a calloc() call,
> and this call fails, is there any way to report this to a global stats
> counter, like the ones in /proc/meminfo
> Is there any way to find out that a malloc call made by a user program failed?
>
No, because that is an internal thing to glibc.
-hpa
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