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Date: | Mon, 4 Apr 94 16:19:16 EDT |
From: | peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) |
To: | djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Subject: | running out of swap space |
Reply-To: | babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu |
Is there any way for an application to determine whether there is enough swap space available to do a system() call? GO32 wants to page out everything when you call system, and an error terminates you abruptly. I think I asked this once before without getting an answer. I was reminded of the problem just now when oemacs died on a shell-to-dos. (Usually I'm swapping to a 4MB RAM disk, but today I'm configured for only 0.5MB.)
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