Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual

CHECKDEALLOCATESEGMENT Procedure (Superseded by
SEGMENT_DEALLOCATE_CHKPT_ Procedure)
Summary
Syntax for C Programmers
Syntax for TAL Programmers
Parameters
Condition Code Settings
Considerations
Summary
NOTE: This procedure is supported for compatibility with previous software and should not be
used for new development.
The CHECKDEALLOCATESEGMENT procedure deallocates an extended data segment from use
by the backup process in a process pair. It is called by the primary process when it is no longer
needed by the backup process.
Syntax for C Programmers
This passive backup procedure is not supported in C programs. For a comparison of active backup
and passive backup, see the Guardian Programmer's Guide.
Syntax for TAL Programmers
CALL CHECKDEALLOCATESEGMENT ( segment-id ! i
,[ flags ] ! i
,error ); ! o
Parameters
segment-id
input
INT:value
is the segment number of the segment, as specified in the call to ALLOCATESEGMENT that
created it.
flags
input
INT:value
if present, has the form:
Must be 0.<0:14>
Indicates that dirty pages in memory are not to be copied to the swap file (See
ALLOCATESEGMENT Procedure (Superseded by SEGMENT_ALLOCATE[64]_ Procedures)
(page 58).)
1<15>
Indicates that dirty pages in memory are to be copied to the swap file.0
If omitted, this parameter defaults to 0.
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