Netscape Directory Server Programmer's Guide: Function Reference

Complete Contents
Getting Started
Chapter 1 Understanding Server Plug-Ins
Chapter 2 Writing and Compiling Plug-Ins
Chapter 3 Calling the Front-End API Functions
Chapter 4 Quick Start
Chapter 5 Writing Database Plug-Ins
Chapter 6 Writing Pre/Post-Operation Plug-Ins
Chapter 7 Defining Functions for LDAP Operations
Chapter 8 Defining Functions for Database Operations
Chapter 9 Defining Functions for Authentication
Chapter 10 Writing Entry Store/Fetch Plug-Ins
Chapter 11 Writing Extended Operation Plug-Ins
Chapter 12 Writing Matching Rule Plug-Ins
Chapter 13 Data Type and Structure Reference
Chapter 14 Function Reference
Chapter 15 Parameter Reference
Glossary

slapi_ch_calloc()

Allocates space for an array of a number of elements of a specified size. This function calls the standard calloc() C function and terminates the slapd server with an "out of memory" error message if memory cannot be allocated.

#include "slapi-plugin.h"
char * slapi_ch_calloc( unsigned long nelem,
unsigned long size );

The function has the following parameters:
nelem
Number of elements that you want to allocate memory for.

size
Size of the element that you want to allocate memory for.

Pointer to the newly allocated space of memory. If space cannot be allocated (for example, if no more virtual memory exists), the slapd program terminates.

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