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cuse(3): Make some clarifications in the manual page.

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Hans Petter Selasky 2022-07-13 16:30:36 +02:00
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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Hans Petter Selasky
.\" Copyright (c) 2010-2022 Hans Petter Selasky
.\"
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd April 17, 2019
.Dd July 18, 2022
.Dt CUSE 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ mapped by
This function returns a valid data pointer on success or
.Dv NULL
on failure.
The returned pointer is always aligned to the system page size.
The number and size of allocations is limited by the
.Xr mmap 2
offset having to fit into a 32-bit variable typically for 32-bit
applications.
.Pp
.Ft "int"
.Fn "cuse_is_vmalloc_addr" "void *"
@ -137,16 +142,12 @@ Else this function returns zero.
This function frees memory allocated by
.Fn cuse_vmalloc .
This function is NULL safe.
Note that the
cuse library will internally not free the memory until the
.Fn cuse_uninit
function is called and that the number of unique
allocations is limited.
.Pp
.Ft "unsigned long"
.Fn "cuse_vmoffset" "void *"
This function returns the mmap offset that the client must use to
This function returns the mmap offset the client must use to
access the allocated memory.
The passed pointer must be aligned to the system page size.
.Pp
.Ft "struct cuse_dev *"
.Fn "cuse_dev_create" "const struct cuse_methods *mtod" "void *priv0" "void *priv1" "uid_t" "gid_t" "int permission" "const char *fmt" "..."