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authorroam <roam@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-27 14:51:21 +0000
committerroam <roam@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-27 14:51:21 +0000
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Remove the misleading description of the 'key' argument to
mpool_open(3) - it is *not* really used for synchronization; in fact, it is not used at all. PR: 70929 Submitted by: Martin Kammerhofer <dada@sbox.tugraz.at> MFC after: 3 days
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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/db/man/mpool.318
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/db/man/mpool.3 b/lib/libc/db/man/mpool.3
index 32714cf..78feab9 100644
--- a/lib/libc/db/man/mpool.3
+++ b/lib/libc/db/man/mpool.3
@@ -65,32 +65,16 @@ The
.Nm mpool
library interface is intended to provide page oriented buffer management
of files.
-The buffers may be shared between processes.
.Pp
The
.Fn mpool_open
function initializes a memory pool.
The
.Fa key
-argument is the byte string used to negotiate between multiple
-processes wishing to share buffers.
-If the file buffers are mapped in shared memory, all processes using
-the same key will share the buffers.
-If
-.Fa key
-is
-.Dv NULL ,
-the buffers are mapped into private memory.
+argument is currently ignored.
The
.Fa fd
argument is a file descriptor for the underlying file, which must be seekable.
-If
-.Fa key
-is
-.No non\- Ns Dv NULL
-and matches a file already being mapped, the
-.Fa fd
-argument is ignored.
.Pp
The
.Fa pagesize
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