Synchronous method in asynchronous signal callback

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 27 May 2015 10:12:40 Havoc Pennington wrote:
> GLib's "do not handle OOM" policy is correct for the 99% case. Many
> who believe they should be handling OOM are probably wrong. And of
> those who should be, many are probably making a token effort that's
> broken in practice.

You should have seen the reaction in the C++ committee discussion mailing list 
when we said that handling OOM was pointless... (in moderately complex 
applications running on modern operating systems, I didn't generalise).
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