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diff --git a/mmalloc/keys.c b/mmalloc/keys.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6686cbc --- /dev/null +++ b/mmalloc/keys.c @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +/* Access for application keys in mmap'd malloc managed region. + Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + Contributed by Fred Fish at Cygnus Support. fnf@cygnus.com + +This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. + +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software +Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ + + +/* This module provides access to some keys that the application can use to + provide persistent access to locations in the mapped memory section. + The intent is that these keys are to be used sparingly as sort of + persistent global variables which the application can use to reinitialize + access to data in the mapped region. + + For the moment, these keys are simply stored in the malloc descriptor + itself, in an array of fixed length. This should be fixed so that there + can be an unlimited number of keys, possibly using a multilevel access + scheme of some sort. */ + +#include "mmalloc.h" + +int +mmalloc_setkey (md, keynum, key) + PTR md; + int keynum; + PTR key; +{ + struct mdesc *mdp = (struct mdesc *) md; + int result = 0; + + if ((mdp != NULL) && (keynum >= 0) && (keynum < MMALLOC_KEYS)) + { + mdp -> keys [keynum] = key; + result++; + } + return (result); +} + +PTR +mmalloc_getkey (md, keynum) + PTR md; + int keynum; +{ + struct mdesc *mdp = (struct mdesc *) md; + PTR keyval = NULL; + + if ((mdp != NULL) && (keynum >= 0) && (keynum < MMALLOC_KEYS)) + { + keyval = mdp -> keys [keynum]; + } + return (keyval); +} |