available memory

[Ken Lee]

In article <13490 at cup.portal.com> dbell at cup.portal.com (David J Bell) writes:
>Does anyone know of a function, intrinsic to UNIX, or not, that 
>will return the currently-available amount of memory that may
>be alloc'ed.

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want, but on BSD UNIX (and SunOS)
you can getrlimit(2) on your data segment.   I don't know about other
UNIXs.

Ken
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