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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Korn shell on AViiON
Keywords: ksh NULL brk sbrk
Message-ID: <3952@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 17:23:07 GMT
References: <1847@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1990Aug23.195904.7904@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>2.  The brk(2) and sbrk(2) system calls actually allocate memory one
>    page at a time; no segmentation fault will occur as the user writes
>    to memory past the break value until he or she steps out of that page.

Err, umm, this is hardly unique to DG/UX or to the AViiON; if "ksh"
can't cope with that, I'm surprised it runs on *any* UNIX box....