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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 14:33 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by lkundrak
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Needless to say, there are not many calls to malloc() in the source
This would be because it predates malloc(). (Remember your K&R first edition, with no mention of malloc() but discussion of an alloc() memory allocator that you might wish to write. And that was 1978...)


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