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authorPhilip Guenthe <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-04-03 01:49:45 +0000
committerPhilip Guenthe <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-04-03 01:49:45 +0000
commit9963fa34b8370cece4e721f76541afce7822b570 (patch)
treec656d439d7eba2582d38b1f89fa88a2006b8da95 /share/man
parentf0671413c76cf4be811dbbb88a3dd9b4fd49cfd1 (diff)
Add missing documention:
- fork1() flags: FORK_SIGHAND, FORK_PTRACE, and FORK_THREAD - RTHREADS kernel option - rfork() RFTHREAD flag (with a BUGS entry that it's not usable from C) ok tedu@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/options.410
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/fork1.924
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/options.4 b/share/man/man4/options.4
index 25f2573cb24..b6ba58cae45 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/options.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/options.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.194 2009/10/22 09:22:46 sobrado Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.195 2010/04/03 01:49:44 guenther Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.21 1997/06/25 03:13:00 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Theo de Raadt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 22 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 3 2010 $
.Dt OPTIONS 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -562,6 +562,12 @@ See
and
.Xr raidctl 8
for details.
+.It Cd option RTHREADS
+Enable kernel support for kernel-level threads via the
+.Dv RFTHREAD
+flag to
+.Xr rfork 2 .
+Currently incomplete.
.It Cd option USER_LDT
Enable userland manipulation of per-process
Local Descriptor Table (LDT) entries;
diff --git a/share/man/man9/fork1.9 b/share/man/man9/fork1.9
index 8d927e698e4..c81efc89fa0 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/fork1.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/fork1.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fork1.9,v 1.12 2009/07/28 12:27:03 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fork1.9,v 1.13 2010/04/03 01:49:44 guenther Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: fork1.9,v 1.3 1999/03/16 00:40:47 garbled Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 28 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 3 2010 $
.Dt FORK1 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -105,6 +105,26 @@ See
The child will share the parent's address space.
The default behavior is
that the child gets a copy-on-write copy of the address space.
+.It Dv FORK_SIGHAND
+The child will share the parent's signal actions, including the handler,
+mask, and flags, with sigactsshare().
+The default behavior is to copy the signal actions from the parent with
+sigactsinit().
+.Dv FORK_SHAREVM
+must also be set.
+.It Dv FORK_PTRACE
+The child will start with tracing enabled, as if
+ptrace(PT_TRACE_ME, 0, 0, 0) had been invoked in the child.
+.It Dv FORK_THREAD
+The child will instead be a kernel-level thread in the same process
+as the parent.
+.Dv FORK_NOZOMBIE ,
+.Dv FORK_SHAREVM ,
+and
+.Dv FORK_SIGHAND
+must also be set.
+If the kernel option RTHREADS isn't enabled then the call will return
+.Dv ENOTSUP .
.El
.Pp
If