Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2004-09-27T07:41:20,
   Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> BTW,I think a lot of applications do not gracefully handle -ENOMEM?
> 
> I suppose most of them just fail and bailout with -ENOMEM.
> 
> No?

True enough. Most of them don't even handle malloc() returning NULL.
That be their problem, though.


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