-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 18:09 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
Actually, it helps solve it, sometimes. The application crashes, probably
I wouldn't say "probably". It shouldn't be par for the course for an application to not check return values from memory allocation functions
That's not what I said. Look again: ] The application crashes, probably ] with an error, maybe a core dump or a backtrace, and it can be examined. There is a comma after the "crashes". I didn't say that it "probably crashes". I said that it will crash, and then probably will produce an error message. The idea is that an application that has a memory hole and uses a lot of memory doesn't crash, but by running with an "ulimit" it will crash when it hits the limit, ant then the error, coredump, or backtrace can be examined. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHbasrtTMYHG2NR9URArIgAKCUI9NyG9hRhD25ZuonZQ/BHlMALgCgkXWu eJY+OmRrUbhlqSr1oM7NPgw= =ND5g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org