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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 LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In 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 file system 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:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width ".Dv MS_INVALIDATE" -compact
+.It Dv MS_ASYNC
+Return immediately
+.It Dv MS_SYNC
+Perform synchronous writes
+.It Dv MS_INVALIDATE
+Invalidate all cached data
+.El
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Rv -std msync
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn msync
+system call
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EBUSY
+Some or all of the pages in the specified region are locked and
+.Dv MS_INVALIDATE
+is specified.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The
+.Fa addr
+argument
+is not a multiple of the hardware page size.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The
+.Fa len
+argument
+is too large or negative.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The
+.Fa flags
+argument
+was both MS_ASYNC and MS_INVALIDATE.
+Only one of these flags is allowed.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr madvise 2 ,
+.Xr mincore 2 ,
+.Xr mlock 2 ,
+.Xr mprotect 2 ,
+.Xr munmap 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn msync
+system call first appeared in
+.Bx 4.4 .
+.Sh BUGS
+The
+.Fn msync
+system call is obsolete since
+.Bx
+implements a coherent file system buffer cache.
+However, it may be used to associate dirty VM pages with file system
+buffers and thus cause them to be flushed to physical media sooner
+rather than later.