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.\" @(#)minherit.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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.Dd June 9, 1993
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.Dt MINHERIT 2
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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 "void *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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which can be set to VM_INHERIT_NONE, VM_INHERIT_COPY, or VM_INHERIT_SHARE.
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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 SEE ALSO
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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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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn minherit
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function first appeared in
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.Bx Open .
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