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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?vishwanath=20pargaonkar?= <vishubp@yahoo.com>
Subject: malloc 
To: tlambert2@mindspring.com, Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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 Hi,
can anybody tell me in malloc what does third
parameter
DONTWAIT ,NOWAIT and WAITOK mean?
Bcoz i have function being called using timeout.in
that function i need to malloc a buffer.
can i use WAITOK?
please tell me abt this.


TIA 




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