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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/minherit.2 b/lib/libc/sys/minherit.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66dbb0b --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/sys/minherit.2 @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)minherit.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 +.\" +.Dd Feb 17, 1996 +.Dt MINHERIT 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm minherit +.Nd control the inheritance of pages +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include <sys/types.h> +.Fd #include <sys/mman.h> +.Ft int +.Fn minherit "void *addr" "size_t len" "int inherit" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn minherit +system call +changes the specified pages to have the inheritance characteristic +.Fa inherit . +Not all implementations will guarantee that the inheritance characteristic +can be set on a page basis; +the granularity of changes may be as large as an entire region. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +Upon successful completion, +.Fn minherit +returns 0. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and +.Va errno +is set to indicate the error. +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn minherit +function will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The virtual address range specified by the +.Fa addr +and +.Fa len +arguments is not valid. +.It Bq Er EACCES +The flags specified by the +.Fa inherit +argument were not valid for the pages specified +by the +.Fa addr +and +.Fa len +arguments. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr fork 2 , +.Xr madvise 2 , +.Xr mincore 2 , +.Xr mprotect 2 , +.Xr msync 2 , +.Xr munmap 2 , +.Xr rfork 2 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn minherit +function first appeared in OpenBSD. |