On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > Here at whistle we are trying to remember about a conversation
> > regarding malloc that occured recently. Maybe others can help.
> >
> > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT)
> > can now return with a failure. Is that true?
>
> Yes; it's necessary to do this to allow some chance of avoiding
> deadlock.
Ouch! Is everything in src-sys already checking the return value of an M_WAITOK?
>
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