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From: jnemeth@cue.bc.ca (John Nemeth)
Subject: Re: Notes on the *new* FreeBSD V1.1 VM system
Message-ID: <1994Mar10.082557.362@softwords.bc.ca>
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References: <1994Mar1.132637.58107@ans.net> <2l1gt9INNc23@CS.UTK.EDU> <2l4i1j$iiv@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 08:25:57 GMT
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In article <2l4i1j$iiv@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:
>I think these masses of memory (provided by backing store) let many
>programers get lazy so they don't chec the return code of their memory
>allocations - if code would be written more carrefully, then one had
>less problems with having not enough memory as thoses applications
>which request it normally should know with memory shortage.
We are discussing broken operating systems, not broken
applications. If an application fails to check a return code and gets
killed for dereferencing a NULL pointer, then I don't care. On the
other hand, I do care if the operating tells an application that it
can have some memory, then kills some random application because some
other application decided to use the memory the operating system said
it could have.
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John Nemeth jnemeth@cue.bc.ca
System Administrator
Computer Using Educators of B.C. Opinions are my own.