Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:49:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?vishwanath=20pargaonkar?= <vishubp@yahoo.com> Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: malloc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108031249150.51833-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20010803082921.4234.qmail@web5304.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, [iso-8859-1] vishwanath pargaonkar wrote: > 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. you must use NOWAIT, and you must handle the case where it may fail and return NULL. > > > TIA > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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