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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by nickelpro on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:26PM (#30860355)
Disagree. An environment that's being reaped by OOMK is not stable enough to make assumptions about. You're in "go down the hall and turn it off and on again" territory.

Attempting to account for such environments in user programs massively inflates their complexity, does little to enhance reliability, and the resulting behavior is typically brittle or outright broken from the get go.

This is why, for example, the C++ committee flirts with making allocation failure a UB condition.

Re:Your computer is a distributed system by astrange on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:57PM (#30863672)
iOS constantly runs an OOM killer and works pretty well.