From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: readlink, getcwd memory leaks
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:08:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jw2h7zz.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y8ojsy1p.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:38:26 -0500")
Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:
>> Sounds good to me. Let's make it official policy and modify
>> scm_memory_error to abort. (scm_gethostname could then be simplified
>> again...)
>
> That would preclude any kind of "release and retry" catch handler. Do
> we care about that? (I'm not saying we do, just wondering.)
Yes, just aborting is maybe a bit inflexible. (I think we have
discussed this previously.) We could allow the registration of
handlers (written in C) for out-of-memory and the default handler
could print a warning, wait a bit, and then retry, backing off
exponentially. Or something.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-25 20:12 readlink, getcwd memory leaks Kevin Ryde
2004-04-24 22:19 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-04-24 22:51 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-04-24 23:42 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-04-25 8:16 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-04-25 18:38 ` Rob Browning
2004-04-26 19:08 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2004-04-29 21:14 ` Stephen Compall
2004-04-28 0:24 ` Kevin Ryde
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