From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: readlink, getcwd memory leaks Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:38:26 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87y8ojsy1p.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <877jx8hejj.fsf@zip.com.au> <87r7uddnnk.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87wu45gfbm.fsf@zip.com.au> <87pt9xc59k.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <408B73DE.5080006@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082918408 13123 80.91.224.253 (25 Apr 2004 18:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Marius Vollmer Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 25 20:39:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BHoXk-0005WO-00 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:39:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BHoXJ-00042w-RK for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BHoXE-000426-Iy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BHoWh-0003rs-Ta for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BHoWh-0003rn-Hd for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177614091; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:38:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67BB0410C7; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:38:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Dirk Herrmann In-Reply-To: <408B73DE.5080006@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> (Dirk Herrmann's message of "Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:16:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3650 Dirk Herrmann writes: > Marius Vollmer wrote: > >> Kevin Ryde writes: >> >> Yes. Maybe we should just disallow out-of-memory throws. There is >> no real point for them: Guile likely can't continue anyway. > > 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.) -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel