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diff --git a/docs/MALLOC b/docs/MALLOC new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c7db9e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/MALLOC @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Avahi supports pluggable memory allocator implemenations. See +<avahi-common/malloc.h> for more information. + +Currently, Avahi does not deal well with out-of-memory +situations. Therefore we recommend the usage of memory allocators that +abort() in case of OOM. The default allocator used by Avahi does this. + +Eventually we will improve Avahi to deal with these things better. + +$Id$ |