Patent ID: 6237000
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
In an information handling system in which a request handler is operable to assign storage to a data structure in accordance with storage allocation parameters contained in a request received from a requester, a method of previewing the results of an assignment to storage to a data structure, comprising the steps of:receiving from a requester a request containing a set of one or more independent storage allocation parameters defining an assignment of storage to a data structure, the data structure defined by the set of independent storage allocation parameters also having a set of one or more dependent storage allocation parameters that define the assignment of storage to the data structure and are dependent on the independent storage allocation parameters;determining, without actually assigning storage to a data structure, the dependent storage allocation parameters of a data structure defined by the independent storage allocation parameters; andreturning the dependent storage allocation parameters to the requester.