On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT) > >can now return with a failure. > > You mean M_WAITOK. yes.. a braino.. (I corrected in later mail) > > >Is that true? > > Of course not. It is fundamental that malloc(..., M_WAITOK) either > succeeds or panics. Most callers depend on this and don't check for > success. The others are bogus. actually it turns out to be true.. see other email from matt. > > You may be thinking of the documented but unimplemented new flag > M_ASLEEP. It's hard to see what this does (since it is > unimplemented), but the docs say to only use it with M_NOWAIT. Unrelated > > Bruce > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
