On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:37:25AM -0600, Ram Gupta wrote:
> Is there a system call or library function which a process can use to
> determine the start of its data segment . I need to know the start of
> the data segment so that process does not cross its DATA limit. Using
> this information & sbrk it knows how much data space is already used &
> how much it can grow further without crossing the limit.

I think getrlimit() might be what you are looking for.
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Jon
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