On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:00:59 -0500, Craddock, Chris <Chris_Craddock@no-spam> wrote:
>> ... By "rogue" I mean something unreasonable
>> by anybody's standards - a program going into an infinite loop doing
>> GETMAINs,etc. Something allocating an unlimitted amount of storage.
>
>Sure it CAN happen, but how often DOES it happen? "Well behaved" production
>programs don't typically just go nuts and start allocating storage.
>...
Ok. I admit I'm responsible products, not application programs, and can never
count on a use being "well behaved". Perhaps this makes me more paranoid
than you.
But your argument works both ways. If an appllication programs is well
behaved and doesn't ask for unlimited storage, there is a a region size that
it will not exceed. It's therefore safe to set a REGION parm that will let it
execute normally yet catch it if it goes bananas. (I'm obviously not talking
about 822s here - more like 878s, etc.)
Pat O'Keefe
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