>>>>> "Ahmed" == Ahmed A <ahmedcali@yahoo.com> writes: Ahmed> I have an off-topic programming question. I need to Ahmed> implement a memory manager on a chunk of memory space Ahmed> eg. 1MB (could be 5MB down the line). I need to Ahmed> implement a typical interface to it eg. malloc, free. Ahmed> Can anyone give any pointers as to how I go out Ahmed> investigating implementations of this - books, urls. Ahmed> Any pointers to urls, files as to how Linux ( or BSD Ahmed> for that matter) implements it. ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/allocsrv.ps http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~zorn/DSA.html http://www.memorymanagement.org/ ~velco -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/