Mel wrote:
>> I was writing a program there that when it called a library, it went
> spastic mallocing memory. It did this is VERY damn quick and used to crash
> the linux box within 10 seconds if not stopped. It managed to kill INIT
> once and the results were not pleasant in the slightest. Thing is, how can
> I stop a program doing something like this. I have the problem solved so
> it doesn't crash but it's very bad form that linux allowed itself to be
> brought down in this fashion by a user space process. Ideas for
> prevention?
Err... the program itself went bananas, or the library it called did so?
There's no way in hell *any* user space program under Linux should be
capable of doing that : it should run out of virtual memory and get
killed.
If you can reproduce it reliably, report it as a bloody serious bug.
Vin
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