On 9/1/2010 10:29 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 9/1/2010 10:17 PM, dave b wrote: >> >> Why not just fix it now and not worry? ... > > But if you can illustrate a few, the community is happy to evaluate your > examples, which is what Jeff has politely suggested to you.
And if you can't illustrate a few explicit cases, further abstract arguments are likely to be politely, but firmly, ignored. There are good C language forums for folks to carry on such religious arguments. Or to put it another way, the dev@ group here is most certainly not worried about the general case, as the current design is effective at terminating httpd when faced with runaway allocations.
