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On Sun, 10 May 2009, Dr. Markus Walther wrote:
>
> But my question to the list and Lua implementors is this:
> - what non-obvious, non-user-controlled system calls - if any - will be
> triggered by pure Lua programs using only the standard libraries?
> - if so, which language construct(s) would invoke these?

The allocator will call sbrk() and mmap().

Tony.
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