

brk()                  COHERENT System Call                 brk()




Change size of data area

bbrrkk(_a_d_d_r)
cchhaarr *_a_d_d_r;

The break is the lowest address above the data area of a process.
brk sets  the break  to the given  addr, possibly rounding  up by
some machine-dependent factor.  It returns zero on success, -1 on
failure.

***** See Also *****

COHERENT system calls, end, exec, malloc(), sbrk()

***** Diagnostics *****

brk sets errno to ENOMEM if the request fails.







































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