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

On Sat, 06 Jul 2002, Andreas Hasenack wrote:

> Em Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:13:20AM +0200, Matthias Andree escreveu:
> > I wrote: Linux always overcommits. Which of the three words is
> > unintelligible?
> >
> > Don't believe it? Try "swapoff -av" and then allocating as much memory
> > as you have in one malloc chunk. What do you expect? NULL. Right. What
> > do you get? NULL or some address?
> Sorry, I get NULL if I change alloca() for malloc() in the same sample 
> program.
Which kernel and glibc versions do you run? Last time I checked, I only
got NULL from malloc() as I actually used the allocated memory.

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Matthias Andree

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