Re: Outputting a User Space through QtmhWrStout

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't use any variables that make the same sound as my program.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> There are APIs you can use to get the current size of the user space.
>
> However, user spaces are often "padded"  (i.e. you tell it to make the
> user space 1000 bytes, but the system makes it 4000 bytes and leaves the
> remaining 3000 bytes empty)  therefore I don't recommend this approach.
>
> You should keep track of the length of your user space somehow.  This
> can be data that you store inside the user space itself, or it can be
> data that your program "remembers" from when it populated the space.
> But either way, I would recommend that your program manage that length
> rather than expecting to retrieve it from the OS.
>
> Incidentally, the article you started with (from the looks of it) was
> something I wrote.  I don't know anyone else that uses variables named
> 'Kaboom' :)
>
> Mike wrote:
> > How would one calculate the size if I didn't have that number? Read
> through
> > the user space and add up all of the characters?
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