Allowing small allocations to fail
Allowing small allocations to fail
Posted Mar 12, 2015 0:23 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313)In reply to: Allowing small allocations to fail by roblucid
Parent article: Allowing small allocations to fail
returning ENOMEM to userspace when userspace doesn't know how much memory was needed or why it's needed is a waste of time, and creating a new error code for userspace to look for will mean that existing programs that check error codes now will all be missing the new error code.