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Bug#247300: libc6: malloc() never fails on 2.4 kernels, making processes crash



On 2004-05-06 16:44:54 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The documentation in the 2.4 kernel is, indeed, wrong IIRC.
> 
> BTW, from 2.6:
>   In mode 2 the MAP_NORESERVE flag is ignored. 

This is precisely what I thought to be the bug in glibc: the fact
(at least with the 2.4 kernel) that this flag is used by glibc.
On which documentation is glibc based (in particular, concerning
old_mmap)?

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