Re: [Chicken-users] Segfault with large data-structures (bug)

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Segfault with large data-structures (bug)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:16:47 +0100

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:10:16AM +0100, Felix wrote:
>> > But why not just use ulimit?  It can be set per process, so I don't see
>> > the need to have a second ulimit-like limit inside each process.
>> 
>> Not everybody uses UNIX, you know.
> 
> I keep forgetting not everybody is "lucky" enough to use it.
> 
> More seriously, do "modern" OSes not have some sort of sane limiting
> system?  ulimit must be several decades old...

Perhaps, but I really don't see a problem of allowing a limit
on heap allocation in the runtime system.


cheers,
felix