From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed Subject: Re: How does malloc tell the kernel to allocate more memory? Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:42:41 +0000 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021208194241.GA15936@btinternet.com> References: <000301c29eea$3107dd10$032a1c43@joe> <20021208192914.GA4262@bandit.kista.gajba.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021208192914.GA4262@bandit.kista.gajba.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux C Programming * Boris Bezlaj [2002-12-08 19:33]: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:46:57PM -0600, Joseph D. Wagner wrote: > > I'm trying to write a tracer on memory allocation, and I'm having a little > > trouble figuring this out. > > You sure this has not been done before? > > > > 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 dont know much about memory management, but there is some documentation > at lkdp.tk ..you might want to check it out, although AFAIK it's not finished yet.. > man {sbrk|brk}? --ibz --