Hi Chris,
No contribution from me as regards a solution - just a couple of follow-up questions (mainly for my own edification).

The call of exit() rather than die() means that, for example, running a Perl REPL interactive shell for PDL can crash without recovery

From that, I deduce that when an OOM error occurs, the OS tells perl it has to exit(), and perl obeys.
However, I had always assumed that when such an error occurred, the OS would simply kill the perl process - no opportunity for perl to perform an exit() ... or to perform anything else, for that matter. Is my assumption incorrect ? (They often are, of course.)

If perl does, in fact, exit() when an OOM error occurs, then it will first execute any END{} blocks.
I don't think that helps *you* in any way, but it would enable one to verify that an OOM error causes perl to exit(). I tried to test this out myself by writing a script with an END{} block that printed something to STDOUT, and having that script generate an OOM error. Only problem was that I couldn't find a way of generating the OOM error :-(
So that's my second question to the assembled monks: "What's the surefire way of generating an OOM error in a perl script ?"

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: die rather than exit on out-of-memory failure? by syphilis
in thread die rather than exit on out-of-memory failure? by chm

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