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From: "Joseph D. Wagner" <wagnerjd@prodigy.net>
Subject: How does malloc tell the kernel to allocate more memory?
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:46:57 -0600
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I'm trying to write a tracer on memory allocation, and I'm having a little
trouble figuring this out.

At some point, malloc has to call the kernel to tell it to allocate more
memory for this user process, right?  I can't figure out which function
malloc calls, or where in the code (line number) it's called.

I'm looking at glib-2.3.1 to try and find my answers.  After all, that's
where malloc is defined, right?

TIA.

Joseph Wagner