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From: fabbroci@sal-sun2.usc.edu (Frank Fabbrocino)
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Subject: Question: What exactly does sbrk(0) do?
Date: 2 Oct 1994 13:45:45 -0700
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Summary: Question: What exactly does sbrk(0) do?
Keywords: Question: What exactly does sbrk(0) do?
From what I understand, calling sbrk(0) returns the size of the data segment
in the executable. However, I can't find this call in our system documentation
or my UNIX books (specifically, calling sbrk with 0). Since I can't look
at the code for sbrk() since our system is proprietary :( and I can't find
the code on BSD ftp sites :( does anyone know where I can get more info
on that specific call of sbrk() with 0 as an arg? Do I even have the right
info on what sbrk(0) does?
Thanks in advance.
Later,
Frank
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