malloc (was: making a request to IBM)

[Christos S. Zoulas]

In article <3800 at d75.UUCP> marc at ekhomeni.austin.ibm.com (Marc Wiz) writes:
>IBM is not the only company that decided to allocate
>page space until the memory was acutally used.
>
>There is at least one other Unix implementation where
>this was done.

At least couldn't the process itself choose the page space allocation 
behavior using some system call similar to vadvise(2)?

For example a process that wanted to make sure that the space it allocated
actually exists should call vadvise(VA_ALLOCATE) or something along those 
lines before calling sbrk().

christos
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