On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> > If there was a portable way to detect imminent resource
> > exhaustion before malloc starts to fail, I'd happily use it.
>
> If there was a way to look into the future, I'm sure we'd
> all happily use it :)
>
Some system call "get_free_pages", maybe... If it's getting low,
don't do <something> you were about to do??
This requires cooperative tasks, but many programs could be "taught" to
cooperate, just put such a call into malloc().
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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