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Old 10-01-2007, 08:20 AM
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Which is the purpose of running twice the code of malloc.c? I refer to the
following line of src/lib/ansi/malloc.c:

for (ntries = 0; ntries < 2; ntries++) {

I suspect it is a hopeless try of a process to allocate more memory from
another process that has just freed some

Christos


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Old 10-01-2007, 08:20 AM
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In article <1134139009.442951@athnrd02>,
Christos Karayiannis wrote:
>Which is the purpose of running twice the code of malloc.c? I refer to the
>following line of src/lib/ansi/malloc.c:
>
>for (ntries = 0; ntries < 2; ntries++) {
>
>I suspect it is a hopeless try of a process to allocate more memory from
>another process that has just freed some

Are you sure that all that other code in the loop is actually a nop?


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