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From: nelson@uiucuxe.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: falloc system call: help
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Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 11:19:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 20 11:19:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxe.CSO.UIUC.EDU!nelson    Oct 20 10:19:00 1986



I need some help with what I think is a nonstandard UNIX system
call in some code that I got from another site. The call is to
a subroutine called falloc; it occurs in fortran code. I can find
no reference to falloc, but I know that it is a call for dynamic
memory allocation. I think that I can replace it with
calloc,malloc,etc. But in order to do so I need to know what falloc
is doing. Could somebody give me a detailed description of falloc
included a list of its arguments, their types, and whether they are
input or output? Please mail responses to:

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