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author | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2015-11-20 00:54:07 +0100 |
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committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2015-11-20 00:54:07 +0100 |
commit | 6789e01e9370b3b7f65d52138c5657eaa712b4d1 (patch) | |
tree | cf0b9282cae981271918512f7af62da7dda4e64c /doc/apt-cache.8.xml | |
parent | 520624d562e54e8e2c0191fae723e668e3ece6b4 (diff) |
do not segfault in cache generation on mmap failure
Out of memory and similar circumstanzas could cause MMap::Map to fail
and especially the mmap/malloc calls in it. With some additional
checking we can avoid segfaults and similar in such situations – at
least in theory as if this is a real out of memory everything we do to
handle the error could just as well run into a memory problem as well…
But at least in theory (if MMap::Map is made to fail always) we can deal
with it so good that a user actually never sees a failure (as the cache
it tries to load with it fails and is discarded, so that DynamicMMap
takes over and a new one is build) instead of segfaulting.
Closes: 803417
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