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This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
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Groff
95 lines
3.0 KiB
Groff
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.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
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.\" @(#)minherit.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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.\"
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.Dd Feb 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 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 "caddr_t 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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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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Upon successful completion,
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.Fn minherit
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returns 0. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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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 EACESS
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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 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 OpenBSD.
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