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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Process data limit
Message-ID: <9203@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 4 Jan 90 02:50:06 GMT
References: <5040@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <5040@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> beihl@sunburn () writes:
> 
> Can anyone explain the following?  Sbrk() seems to be returning a value
> far larger than getrlimit or `limit` (from the shell). Who's right?
> I've looked at the man pages for getrlimit, csh and sbrk and am still
> clueless...

The data segment is not contiguous with the text segmnent, presumably
it starts at 0x10000000.  So sbrk is returning and address, limit is
defining an amount...

This is documented somewhere, though I forgets exactly where...

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