In article <20010805204143.A18899@alcove.wittsend.com>,
Michael H. Warfield <mhw@wittsend.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 04:41:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> We could merge more, but I'm not interested in working around broken
>
> If it only causes problems for the broken app, that's fine. If it
>causes problems for the rest of the system, that could be bad.
It only causes problem for the broken app. Even then, the problem is a
(likely undetectable) slowdown, or in the extreme case the kernel will
just tell it that "Ok, you've allocated enough, no more soup for you".
Linus
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