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author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-05-15 20:10:33 +0000 |
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committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-05-15 20:10:33 +0000 |
commit | 01d0c41fec21590c57f71273972dc317fe0cc428 (patch) | |
tree | 650a450fd0e6fdfbfe1da3d6fbadbb115fd898da | |
parent | 73a98f6609fe8c45b63510445f57df8c1f375608 (diff) |
uimove(9) from NetBSD with minor changes for OpenBSD. We should
consider changing the size parameter to uiomove() from int to size_t.
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/Makefile | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/uiomove.9 | 139 |
2 files changed, 142 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/Makefile b/share/man/man9/Makefile index 786d8255702..e833f9cf268 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man9/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.48 2002/02/28 19:22:05 csapuntz Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.49 2002/05/15 20:10:32 millert Exp $ # $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.4 1996/01/09 03:23:01 thorpej Exp $ # Makefile for section 9 (kernel function and variable) manual pages. @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ MAN= altq.9 audio.9 boot.9 bus_dma.9 bus_space.9 copy.9 crypto.9 ctxsw.9 \ ratecheck.9 resettodr.9 radio.9 random.9 \ shutdownhook_establish.9 sleep.9 spl.9 startuphook_establish.9 \ store.9 style.9 \ - time.9 timeout.9 tvtohz.9 uvm.9 \ + time.9 timeout.9 tvtohz.9 uiomove.9 uvm.9 \ vaccess.9 vclean.9 vcount.9 vdevgone.9 vfinddev.9 vflush.9 vget.9 \ vgone.9 vhold.9 vinvalbuf.9 vput.9 vref.9 vrele.9 \ vm_allocate.9 vm_map_copy.9 vm_deallocate.9 \ @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ MLINKS+=timeout.9 timeout_add.9 timeout.9 timeout_set.9 \ timeout.9 timeout_pending.9 timeout.9 timeout_del.9 \ timeout.9 timeout_initialized.9 timeout.9 untimeout.9 \ timeout.9 timeout_triggered.9 +MLINKS+=uiomove.9 uio.9 MLINKS+=vm_map_copy.9 vm_copy.9 MLINKS+=vm_map_inherit.9 vm_inherit.9 MLINKS+=vm_map_protect.9 vm_protect.9 diff --git a/share/man/man9/uiomove.9 b/share/man/man9/uiomove.9 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..07ad2a52129 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man9/uiomove.9 @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: uiomove.9,v 1.6 2001/12/26 00:16:30 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD +.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its +.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived +.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS +.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED +.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd February 12, 1999 +.Dt UIOMOVE 9 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm uiomove +.Nd move data described by a struct uio +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include <sys/systm.h> +.Ft int +.Fn uiomove "caddr_t buf" "int n" "struct uio *uio" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +function copies up to +.Fa n +bytes between the kernel-space address pointed +to by +.Fa buf +and the addresses described by +.Fa uio , +which may be in user-space or kernel-space. +.Pp +The +.Fa uio +argument is a pointer to a +.Fa struct uio +as defined by +.Aq Pa sys/uio.h : +.Bd -literal +struct uio { + struct iovec *uio_iov; /* pointer to array of iovecs */ + int uio_iovcnt; /* number of iovecs in array */ + off_t uio_offset; /* offset into file this uio corresponds to */ + size_t uio_resid; /* residual i/o count */ + enum uio_seg uio_segflg; + enum uio_rw uio_rw; + struct proc *uio_procp;/* process if UIO_USERSPACE */ +}; +.Ed +.Pp +A +.Fa struct uio +typically describes data in motion. +Several of the fields described below reflect that expectation. +.Bl -tag -width uio_xxxxxx +.It uio_iov +Pointer to array of +.Fa struct iovecs : +.Bd -literal +struct iovec { + void *iov_base; /* Base address. */ + size_t iov_len; /* Length. */ +}; +.Ed +.It uio_iovcnt +The number of iovecs in the array. +.It uio_offset +An offset into the corresponding object. +.It uio_resid +The amount of data remaining to be transferred. +.It uio_segflg +A flag indicating whether the space described is in user-space +(UIO_USERSPACE) or kernel-space (UIO_SYSSPACE). +.It uio_rw +A flag indicating whether date should be read into the space +(UIO_READ) or written from the space (UIO_WRITE). +.It uio_procp +A pointer to the process whose data area is described by the +structure, or NULL if the area is in kernel-space. +.El +.Pp +The value of +.Fa uio->uio_rw +controls whether +.Nm +copies data from +.Fa buf +to +.Fa uio +or vice versa. +.Pp +The lesser of +.Fa n +or +.Fa uio->resid +bytes are copied. +.Pp +.Nm +changes fields of the structure pointed to by +.Fa uio , +such that +.Fa uio->uio_resid +is decremented by the amount of data moved, +.Fa uio->uio_offset +is incremented by the same amount, and the array of iovecs is adjusted +to point that much farther into the region described. +This allows multiple calls to +.Nm +to easily be used to fill or drain the region of data. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Nm +returns 0 on success or EFAULT if a bad address is encountered. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr copy 9 , +.Xr fetch 9 , +.Xr store 9 |