[haiku-appserver] Re: Shared Memory Allocation
- From: Adi Oanca <adi-oanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:22:26 +0300
Hi,
"Axel Dörfler" wrote:
> The only problem is probably, that you don't know before that the
> BShape will need that much space, and resize_area() is not exactly the
> most reliable call to compensate that. You could allocate areas in
> chunks (maybe 128 kB) and give the list of those to the app_server -
> in any way, that would need some real world tests.
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> While shrinking an area is no problem, growing it usually is (using
> resize_area()).
> There is no guaranty that the address space after that area is still
> available in which case the function will fail.
I don't understand what you're saying here...
Why resize_area() is not reliable? and why do you say the address space
might be unavailable - because resize_area() might fail? If that's the
case, we still can protect ourselfs.
Please explain what you have against this solution.
Thanks,
Adi.
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