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Is Linux designed in such a way that less-than-page size allocations never fail? How would that work?

• astrange 3y ago
  As long as the syscalls don't themselves fail, it's no problem until you run out of address space. At which point you should crash because you probably need to allocate to handle any reasonable errors.
  • cassepipe 3y ago
    So is there no point to checking malloc return ?