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* malloc() failure counter
@ 2012-04-17 22:02 James Courtier-Dutton
  2012-04-17 23:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: James Courtier-Dutton @ 2012-04-17 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML Mailing List

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?

Kind Regards

James

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* Re: malloc() failure counter
  2012-04-17 22:02 malloc() failure counter James Courtier-Dutton
@ 2012-04-17 23:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: H. Peter Anvin @ 2012-04-17 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: James Courtier-Dutton; +Cc: LKML Mailing List

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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