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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +0000 |
commit | a4b155d7a2170a500eb79b46959eef4018441062 (patch) | |
tree | cb18f664ed0ee63bee30f6af9b148510b6e9663b /lib/libc/sys/mlock.2 | |
parent | e7e659d1cc574138f455ed70d58a07294211ff5a (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-a4b155d7a2170a500eb79b46959eef4018441062.zip FreeBSD-src-a4b155d7a2170a500eb79b46959eef4018441062.tar.gz |
mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language.
Stop calling system calls "function calls".
Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".
When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/mlock.2')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/mlock.2 | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mlock.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mlock.2 index c6f168b..c4839c0 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/mlock.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/mlock.2 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ for bytes. The .Fn munlock -call unlocks pages previously locked by one or more +system call unlocks pages previously locked by one or more .Fn mlock calls. For both, the @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The entire range must be allocated. .Pp After an .Fn mlock -call, the indicated pages will cause neither a non-resident page +system call, the indicated pages will cause neither a non-resident page nor address-translation fault until they are unlocked. They may still cause protection-violation faults or TLB-miss faults on architectures with software-managed TLBs. @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ These calls are only available to the super-user. If the call succeeds, all pages in the range become locked (unlocked); otherwise the locked status of all pages in the range remains unchanged. .Sh ERRORS -.Fn Mlock +The +.Fn mlock +system call will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EPERM @@ -124,7 +126,9 @@ limit for locked memory. Some portion of the indicated address range is not allocated. There was an error faulting/mapping a page. .El -.Fn Munlock +The +.Fn munlock +system call will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EPERM @@ -167,5 +171,5 @@ The .Fn mlock and .Fn munlock -functions first appeared in +system calls first appeared in .Bx 4.4 . |