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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!fmrco!fmrco!asherman From: asherman@fmrco.com (Aaron Sherman) Subject: Re: Question: What exactly does sbrk(0) do? In-Reply-To: pauls@locust.cic.net's message of 2 Oct 1994 23:04:08 GMT Message-ID: <ASHERMAN.94Oct17141039@keel.fmrco.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Sender: news@fmrco.uucp X-Quote: "The few. The proud... The MACHINES!" -T-shirt referencing the "Terminator" movies seen at a Con Reply-To: asherman@FMRCO.COM Organization: I-Kinetics, 19 Bishop-Allen Dr., Cambridge, MA References: <36n65p$blf@sal-sun2.usc.edu> <36ne98$l29@spruce.cic.net> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 18:10:39 GMT Lines: 17 >>>>> On 2 Oct 1994, pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) said: Paul> To format the man page you will need the "mandoc" macros. These are Paul> not included in most systems' [tn]roff implementations, but are standard Paul> in GNU groff. prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/groff-1.09.tar.gz (requires C++) Amusing that you should mention n/troff. As it turns out, those two programs (really one program with different drivers) are the only programs that I know of in the USL version of the code that rely on sbrk directly to do ALL memory allocation. :-) Only know this from interaction with OSF/1's version of said code, but I know they got it from some SysV derived system (prob. AIX). -AJS