--- In Paulo Marques <> wrote:
>
> Christopher Friedt wrote:
> > Likely, yes.
> >
> > The funny thing about linux (if you check man malloc) is that
there is
> > no gaurantee that malloc'd memory is actually there. To quote
the author
> > of the man page "this is a really bad bug".
>
> Saying that this is a really bad bug just shows that the guy that
wrote
> the man page doesn't have a clue about the way the Linux VM
subsystem
> works and the magic that it does to keep everything working.
Well put and I agree. This behavior is traditional in virtually
every UNIX type OS. I'm surprised at the fact that the Linux man
page calls it a bug.
//Jesse Off
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