On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net> wrote: > Sorry, I just don't understand why that's the right thing to do. If a > > daemon can't allocate memory in order to perform the operations that > > it needs to perform, then how can it provide the functionality that > > it's expected to provide? Why should it continue indefinitely instead > > of aborting and being restarted automatically? > > Yeah, your entitled to your option but this has been discussed in the > past and some people say just the opposite. I'm going to leave things > the way they are for now.
I wanted to understand your position... Oh, and I've just noticed that there's a `fatal' macro that calls abort(3). It seems to be used widely, but solely for unexpected Pthreads errors?
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