Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)
To: Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk>
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/11/1999 20:17:40 
In message <19990712022424.A1390@oaktree.co.uk> Jon Ribbens writes:
: No, if the *process* hits its *administrative* resource limits.
: i.e. setrlimit(2).

That should (and I believe does) make malloc fail.

Warner