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From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
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> I am about to develop one of these myself only a little more complex.
> Can anyone give me some advise on how I can force malloc (or equal) to
> use only a particular region of memory?  i.e so if process1 maintains a
> hashed list, complete with string pointers to variable length strings in
> the nodes all children will be able to see this list?

you mean children as in via fork(), right? rfork will get you a little 
bit of this. 

ron