Re: [fetchmail] about that fetchmail imap message count vulnerability an

On Thu, 04 Jul 2002, Andreas Hasenack wrote:

> So, what's the point in using it anyway? I didn't get a segfault alloca()ting
> 1Gb of memory, but the next printf() in my sample program crashed. Isn't
> that too much instability for fetchmail?
Well, you cannot expect to be able to recover from out-of-memory
conditions anyways. As competing processes fight for memory, you may
lose memory you intended to use for a graceful exit, like saving state
or something. Indeed, that's vexing, but such is life with multi-tasking
operating systems.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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