Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual (G06.25+)

Guardian Procedure Calls (S)
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SEGMENT_DEALLOCATE_CHKPT_ Procedure
been made permanent to reserve the swap file space, or when the file contents are
unimportant for any reason.
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Breakpoints
Before deallocating a segment, SEGMENT_DEALLOCATE_CHKPT_ removes all
memory access breakpoints set in that segment.
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Segment deallocation
When a segment is deallocated, the swap file end of file (EOF) is set to the larger
of the following values:
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the EOF when the file was opened by SEGMENT_ALLOCATE_
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the end of the highest numbered page that is written to the swap file
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Shared segments
A shared segment remains in existence until it has been deallocated by all the
processes that allocated it.