[18593] in Athena Bugs
Re: Our screen saver is sensitive to running out of swap space.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Dec 7 12:17:23 2000
Message-Id: <200012071717.MAA07674@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, vchudnov@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:53:21 GMT."
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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:17:02 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Is there a way to make the screen saver a little more immune to bad
> behavior from running out of memory?
Not really. We'd have to rototill the code (it uses malloc()
everywhere, and checks the return value nowhere), and we don't have
the resources to do that to third-party sources.
