The established plan is to finish async and evaluate.
Matt
On Dec 20, 2017 5:02 AM, "William Allen Simpson" <
william.allen.simp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> DanG has raised an interesting issue about recovery from low memory.
> In Ganesha, we've been assiduously changing NULL checks to assert or
> segfault on alloc failures. Just had a few more patches by Kaleb.
>
> Since 2013 or 2014, we've been doing the same to NTIRPC. There are
> currently 105 mem_.*alloc locations, and almost all of them
> deliberately segfault.
>
> DanG argues that we should report the ENOMEM in an error return, or
> in the alternative return NULL in those cases, and let the caller
> decide what to do, to make the library more general.
>
> The current TI-RPC does return NULL in many cases. Rarely reports
> ENOMEM. And often segfaults.
>
> This would be a major reworking. Should we do this? If so, what is
> the target date?
>
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