Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:35:14PM -0400, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > If "what it does" is merely return the value of the C sbrk() function, > then IMHO, sbrk() is a perfectly good name. > > However, as to other possible names -- how about ProcessSize() ? I'm > not sure if this is really a valid

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-04 Thread Slaven Rezic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > En op 4 oktober 2002 sprak Michael G Schwern: > > The problem is when you put those two next to each other, one > > promising a friendly interface, one a bare-metal interface, > > it confuses the intent of the module. Is it for Joe End User > > or is it for Joe Core Ha

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-04 Thread Slaven Rezic
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:43:43AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > The reason I'm saying it might not be much use to people unfamiliar with > > the internals of unix is precisely because it does return a precisely defined > > but not directly usefu