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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.7-mm2, mmaps rework, buggy apps, setarch
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:31:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088152275.2704.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040625082243.GA11515@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>

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> 
> Can someone please explain me *what* the effects of a `buggy app' would
> be: Segfault I suppose. But what to do with a commerical app where I
> cannot check a stack trace or whatever?

basically the applications that break do:

int ptr;

ptr = malloc(some_size);

if (ptr <= 0) 
    handle_no_memory();



> Background: I am having problems with current debian/sid on 2.6.7-mm2
> with vuescan.

can you describe these problems in somewhat more detail ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-25  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-25  8:22 Norbert Preining
2004-06-25  8:31 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-06-25 10:00   ` Norbert Preining
2004-06-25 10:05     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-25  8:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-25 10:33   ` Norbert Preining
2004-06-25 10:43     ` Arjan van de Ven
     [not found]       ` <4f.3ff82aed.2e0d624a@aol.com>
2004-06-25 20:47         ` Norbert Preining
2004-06-30  7:10           ` Norbert Preining
2004-06-30  7:19             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-25  8:39 ` Arjan van de Ven

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