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Re: zsh exhausting swap

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: zsh exhausting swap
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:49:13 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:00:43 +0000
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Bart Schaefer wrote:

> The crash eventually occurs when a buffer as large as zsh needs cannot
> be allocated.
> 
> However, I don't understand what you expect zsh to do differently.

One problem is that sizeline() doens't test if it gets a NULL back
from `realloc()'.
The problem is that we would have to add error-catching code to all
places where this is used...

Bye
 Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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