[PATCH] introduce xmalloc and xrealloc

Introduce xmalloc and xrealloc to die gracefully with a descriptive
message when out of memory, rather than taking a SIGSEGV. 

Signed-off-by: Christopher Li<chrislgit@chrisli.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christopher Li
2005-04-26 12:00:58 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f2a19340ad
commit 812666c8e6
18 changed files with 54 additions and 41 deletions

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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int force = 0, quiet = 0, not_new = 0;
static void create_directories(const char *path)
{
int len = strlen(path);
char *buf = malloc(len + 1);
char *buf = xmalloc(len + 1);
const char *slash = path;
while ((slash = strchr(slash+1, '/')) != NULL) {