bpcompat-1.0.zip_(re)

Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:07:12 +0100 (BST)

On Fri, 30 May 1997 16:16:22 +0300 (EET DST) Jukka Virtanen  wrote:

>> Does anyone know of any way (including portable C functions) to return 
>> the total available system memory, and the total free system memory?
>> 
>> Information of this kind would help in making MemAvail() and MaxAvail()
>> useful on platforms other than DJGPP. Thanks.
>> 
>
>	This is kind of system specific, but perhaps you could
>	try the 'getrlimit' syscall in unix boxes to
>	get the memory size that a process is allowed to
>	use.

Thanks. Is this available in the unix C libraries? Otherwise, I will 
just have to leave the functions as they are.

Best regards, The Chief 
Dr Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief, and the Great Elephant)
Author of:  Chief's Installer Pro v3.50 for Win16 and Win32.
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