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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by ktRolster on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @02:03PM (#11338533)
Side note: on most Linux distros, overcommit is on, and so malloc will basically always succeed; the OOM killer will kill your program before you'd get a failure

Clarifying note: this is configurable.

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