.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "IPC_ALLOC" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME ipc_alloc \- allocate ipc space .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp void* ipc_alloc (int \fIsize\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIsize\fB\fR size desired .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Allocate memory from the appropriate pools and return a pointer to it. NULL is returned if the allocation fails