alloc-indirect-pages

Name

alloc-indirect-pages -- Allocate some indirect page numbers

Type: function

Synopsis

alloc-indirect-pages( pstore num-pages, first-page);

Arguments

pstore

An instance of <persistent-store>.

num-pages

An instance of <fixnum>.

Return Values

first-page

An instance of <fixnum>.

Description

If the well-known indirect page numbers (0-255) are insufficient for an applications needs, more page numbers may be obtained using this function, which allocates blocks of indirect page numbers.