From 4f0a5e7572a4257894b4bfede42c26d65152609e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:25:09 +0000 Subject: * strip glib from avahi-core * implement glib memory allocator * add new documentation file MALLOC * initialize pseudo-RNG from /dev/urandom in avahi-daemon * remove some gcc 4.0 warnings * beef up watch system with real timeouts * move GCC __attribute__ macros into its own header avahi-common/gccmacro.h * make use of GCC's sentinel attribute where it make sense * add malloc() implementations that abort on OOM and enable them by default git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/avahi/trunk@308 941a03a8-eaeb-0310-b9a0-b1bbd8fe43fe --- docs/MALLOC | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/MALLOC (limited to 'docs') 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 + 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. + +$Id$ -- cgit