Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 16:19:16 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: running out of swap space
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

Is there any way for an application to determine whether there is enough swap
space available to do a system() call?  GO32 wants to page out everything
when you call system, and an error terminates you abruptly.  I think I asked
this once before without getting an answer.  I was reminded of the problem
just now when oemacs died on a shell-to-dos.  (Usually I'm swapping to a 4MB
RAM disk, but today I'm configured for only 0.5MB.)