A stock Linux system will happily slaughter your system services with the OOM killer before malloc ever returns NULL.
Only if overcommit is activated, which is not a good idea in embedded systems where busybox is likely to be used. Also, resource limits are a thing, and proper administration practices make use of them. malloc returning NULL is not so far out as people think it is, far from it. It *does* happen. -- Laurent _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
