[PATCH] introduce xmalloc and xrealloc

Introduce xmalloc and xrealloc to die gracefully with a descriptive
message when out of memory, rather than taking a SIGSEGV. 

Signed-off-by: Christopher Li<chrislgit@chrisli.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/init-db.c b/init-db.c
index dad06351ca..83f95e8b92 100644
--- a/init-db.c
+++ b/init-db.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		fprintf(stderr, "defaulting to local storage area\n");
 	}
 	len = strlen(sha1_dir);
-	path = malloc(len + 40);
+	path = xmalloc(len + 40);
 	memcpy(path, sha1_dir, len);
 
 	safe_create_dir(sha1_dir);