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kibwen
on Feb 23, 2016
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Rewrite Everything in Rust
> you need to run it in it's own process
Assuming that you can detect OOM in userspace at all, which usually isn't the case on Linux (or any other system with overcommit).
daurnimator
on Feb 23, 2016
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huh? you'd notice your child process was exited with SIGABRT.
kibwen
on Feb 26, 2016
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SIGABRT doesn't necessarily mean OOM, and in any case if you're prepared to monitor child processes for aborts then you'll be perfectly fine with the fact that Rust's default stdlib aborts on OOM, which is the context of this thread.
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