From a50eabd4f12ba1f5aa3103edf661dc140f6942f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: roam Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:51:21 +0000 Subject: 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 MFC after: 3 days --- lib/libc/db/man/mpool.3 | 18 +----------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/libc/db/man') 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 -- cgit v1.1