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> > Really, programs which use the standard malloc calls cannot
> > do much on SIGDANGER but to be nice and exit, or bee bad and
> > keep all their resources.
> Sending SIGDANGER is a good idea. Not killing programs with
> a SIGDANGER handler is, IMNSHO, a bad idea. We could give programs
> which clean up 'on their own' a large bonus though (2x or 4x
> less 'kill points').
OK, so a program does:
for(;;) {
malloc(3Mb);
free(2Mb);
}
to save itself from being killed...
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