On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net> wrote: > 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? > > So, now it looks like I'm contradicting myself, well called, ;) > > The fatal() function was added much later than the times we got > complains about autofs exiting upon errors, which lead to the common > approach of continue if at all possible. The call is used almost > exclusively for checking pthreads call returns that should "never" fail. > The idea is that, rather than not bother checking them, abort so we can > see where the fail occurred and get a backtrace from the core.
Does dmalloc provide similar functionality in the event of memory exhaustion?
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