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+.\"	@(#)msync.2	8.2 (Berkeley) 6/21/94
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd June 21, 1994
+.Dt MSYNC 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm msync
+.Nd synchronize a mapped region
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
+.Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn msync "void *addr" "size_t len" "int flags"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn msync
+system call
+writes any modified pages back to the filesystem and updates
+the file modification time.
+If
+.Fa len
+is 0, all modified pages within the region containing
+.Fa addr
+will be flushed;
+if
+.Fa len
+is non-zero, only those pages containing 
+.Fa addr
+and
+.Fa len-1
+succeeding locations will be examined.
+The
+.Fa flags
+argument may be specified as follows:
+.Bd -literal
+MS_ASYNC	Return immediately (not currently implemented)
+MS_SYNC		Perform synchronous writes
+MS_INVALIDATE	Invalidate all cached data
+.Ed
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+If any errors occur, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the
+error. Otherwise, a 0 value is returned.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn msync
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa addr
+is not a multiple of the hardware page size.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa len
+is too large or negative.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa flags
+was both MS_ASYNC and MS_INVALIDATE. Only one of these flags is allowed.
+.It Bq Er EIO
+An I/O error occurred while writing to the file system.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr madvise 2 ,
+.Xr mincore 2 ,
+.Xr mprotect 2 ,
+.Xr munmap 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn msync
+function first appeared in
+.Bx 4.4 .