> > Perhaps Sebastian's choice could be made to depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED, > > rather than CONFIG_EXPERT? > > Even if the overcommit behavior is different on those systems the > primary question hasn't been answered yet. Why cannot this be done from > the userspace? In other words what wouldn't work properly?
Most allocations in C have no mechanism to report failure. Stakc expansion failure is not reportable. Copy on write failure is not reportable and so on. Alan
