Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> [2019-05-13, 11:17AM +0100]: > This is a long mail about ENOMEM (OOM) handling in libvirt. The executive > summary is that it is not worth the maint cost because: > > - this code will almost never run on Linux hosts > > - if it does run it will likely have bad behaviour silently dropping > data or crashing the process > > - apps using libvirt often do so via a non-C language that aborts/exits > the app on OOM regardless, or use other C libraries that abort > > - we can build a system that is more reliable when OOM happens by > not catching OOM, instead simply letting apps exit, restart and > carry on where they left off > > The long answer follows...
Yes, please, thank you. All in favour!
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