madvise().
This feature prevents the update daemon from gratuitously flushing
dirty pages associated with a mapped file-backed region of memory. The
system pager will still page the memory as necessary and the VM system
will still be fully coherent with the filesystem. Modifications made
by other means to the same area of memory, for example by write(), are
unaffected. The feature works on a page-granularity basis.
MAP_NOSYNC allows one to use mmap() to share memory between processes
without incuring any significant filesystem overhead, putting it in
the same performance category as SysV Shared memory and anonymous memory.
Reviewed by: julian, alc, dg
with NetBSD and the Single Unix Specification v2.
This updates some structures with other, almost equivalent types and
effort is under way to get the whole more consistent.
Also removes a double definition of INET6 and some other clean-ups.
Reviewed by: green, bde, phk
Some part obtained from: NetBSD, SUSv2 specification
the code, which seems to implement the POSIX requirements, and
have described the behavior here. Basically, it behaves the same
as select(2).
Noticed by: John Polstra
Style and punctuation errors fixes.
ERRORS section included to RETURN VALUES because it's
describing return values instead of errors and their handling.
Reviewed by: mpp
- Sort xrefs
- FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org
- Be consistent with section names as outlines in mdoc(7)
- Other misc mdoc cleanup.
PR: doc/13144
Submitted by: Alexy M. Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
Removed POSIX.1/NetBSD markup (braces) for NAME_MAX, etc. We don't
define this. Most FreeBSD man pages hard-code the limits; in fact,
utimes.2 recently became the only file in libc/sys/*.2 that mentions
NAME_MAX. There probably should be mandoc macros for this.
Text is a compromise based on messages from Wes Peters, Ville-Pertti
Keinonen, and Matt Dillon.
PR: docs/10512
Submitted by: Howard Goldstein <hgoldst@mpcs.com>
Note: you need to install the current groff tmac macros for these
man pages to format correctly. Specifically, rev 1.21 of
contrib_groff/tmac/doc-syms in -current, or rev 1.17.24 for 3.2-stable
track.
The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;
.\" $Id$
.\"
If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.
Approved by: bde
