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

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Sun, 9 May 2004 19:39:59 +0200,
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Second, I for one would consider the absence of overcommitment as a
> > bad misfeature. Good luck with the kernel bug report.
> 
> The 2.6 kernel seems to have better memory handling (but I couldn't
> try yet). Concerning the 2.4 kernel, the problem seems to be the
> documentation.

2.4 is starting the handover process to 2.6 with its role of stable
version.  So if you want to fix 2.4 kernel documents, please do.

I think we reached agreements that this bug is not glibc releated
problem.  Thanks to Wolfram and Daniel.  I would like to close this
bug.  Vincent, ok?

Regards,
-- gotom