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.\" @(#)minherit.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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2000-12-11 15:15:20 +00:00
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.Dd February 17, 1996
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.Dt MINHERIT 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm minherit
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.Nd control the inheritance of pages
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
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.Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn minherit "void *addr" "size_t len" "int inherit"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn minherit
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system call
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changes the specified pages to have the inheritance characteristic
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.Fa inherit .
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Not all implementations will guarantee that the inheritance characteristic
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can be set on a page basis;
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the granularity of changes may be as large as an entire region.
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.Fx
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is capable of adjusting inheritance characteristics on a page basis.
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Inheritance only effects children created by
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.Fn fork .
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It has no effect on
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.Fn exec .
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exec'd processes replace their address space entirely. This function also
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has no effect on the parent's address space (other then to potentially
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share the address space with its children).
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.Pp
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Inheritance is a rather esoteric feature largely superceeded by the
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MAP_SHARED feature of
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.Fn mmap .
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However, it is possible to use
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.Fn minherit
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to share a block of memory between parent and child that has been mapped
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MAP_PRIVATE. That is, modifications made by parent or child are shared but
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the original underlying file is left untouched.
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.Bl -tag -width MAP_HASSEMAPHORE
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.It Dv MAP_SHARED
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This option causes the address space in question to be shared between
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parent and child. It has no effect on how the original underlying backing
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store was mapped.
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.It Dv MAP_PRIVATE
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This option prevents the address space in question from being inherited
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at all. The address space will be unmapped in the child.
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.It Dv MAP_COPY
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This option has been deprecated. It had the same effect as MAP_PRIVATE,
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which is not what one would expected for an option called MAP_COPY.
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.El
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Rv -std minherit
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn minherit
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function will fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The virtual address range specified by the
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.Fa addr
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and
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.Fa len
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arguments is not valid.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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The flags specified by the
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.Fa inherit
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argument were not valid for the pages specified
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by the
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.Fa addr
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and
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.Fa len
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arguments.
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.El
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.Sh BUGS
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Once you set inheritance to MAP_PRIVATE or MAP_SHARED, there is no way to
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recover the originanl copy-on-write semantics short of unmapping and remapping
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the area.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr fork 2 ,
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.Xr madvise 2 ,
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.Xr mincore 2 ,
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.Xr mprotect 2 ,
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.Xr msync 2 ,
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.Xr munmap 2 ,
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.Xr rfork 2
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn minherit
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function first appeared in
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.Ox .
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