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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-03-11 05:23:19 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-03-11 05:23:19 +0000
commitb3efe59512de84398df44909b63d7ec437f15441 (patch)
tree949ba0f61d7e51a6a7aa22725a2f96ec018e079e /lib/libc/sys
parent429f7efba571862ed48aa60960ae7d0c28f42cb5 (diff)
Add cvs tag, remove incompatible LIBRARY section, plus other OpenBSD'ifications
typical when importing a new man page.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/mlockall.219
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mlockall.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mlockall.2
index 83100e163e6..9f3ccb8dfa2 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/mlockall.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/mlockall.2
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.\" $OpenBSD: mlockall.2,v 1.2 2001/03/11 05:23:18 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mlockall.2,v 1.6 2000/06/26 17:00:02 kleink Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -42,8 +43,6 @@
.Nm mlockall ,
.Nm munlockall
.Nd lock (unlock) the address space of a process
-.Sh LIBRARY
-.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <sys/mman.h>
@@ -65,17 +64,17 @@ The following flags affect the behavior of
Lock all pages currently mapped into the process's address space.
.It Dv MCL_FUTURE
Lock all pages mapped into the process's address space in the future,
-at the time the mapping is established. Note that this may cause
-future mappings to fail if those mappings cause resource limits to
-be exceeded.
+at the time the mapping is established.
+Note that this may cause future mappings to fail if those mappings
+cause resource limits to be exceeded.
.El
-.Pp
+.Pp
Since physical memory is a potentially scarce resource, processes are
limited in how much they can lock down.
A single process can lock the minimum of a system-wide
.Dq wired pages
limit and the per-process
-.Li RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
+.Dv RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
resource limit.
.Pp
The
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ will fail if:
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The
.Ar flags
-argument is zero, or includes unimplemented flags.
+argument is zero or includes unimplemented flags.
.It Bq Er ENOMEM
Locking the indicated range would exceed either the system or per-process
limit for locked memory.
@@ -107,7 +106,7 @@ limit for locked memory.
Some or all of the memory mapped into the process's address space
could not be locked when the call was made.
.It Bq Er EPERM
-The calling process does not have the appropriate privilege to perform
+The calling process does not have the appropriate privileges to perform
the requested operation.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
@@ -135,5 +134,5 @@ The per-process resource limit is a limit on the amount of virtual
memory locked, while the system-wide limit is for the number of locked
physical pages.
Hence a process with two distinct locked mappings of the same physical page
-counts as 2 pages against the per-process limit and as only a single page
+counts as 2 pages against the per-process limit and only as a single page
in the system limit.