1.\" $OpenBSD: minherit.2,v 1.9 1999/06/29 14:50:29 aaron Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)minherit.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 9, 1993 37.Dt MINHERIT 2 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm minherit 41.Nd control the inheritance of pages 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Fd #include <sys/types.h> 44.Fd #include <sys/mman.h> 45.Fd #include <vm/vm_inherit.h> 46.Ft int 47.Fn minherit "void *addr" "size_t len" "int inherit" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Fn minherit 51system call 52changes the specified pages to have the inheritance characteristic 53.Fa inherit , 54which can be set to 55.Dv VM_INHERIT_NONE , 56.Dv VM_INHERIT_COPY , 57or 58.Dv VM_INHERIT_SHARE . 59Not all implementations will guarantee that the inheritance characteristic 60can be set on a page basis; 61the granularity of changes may be as large as an entire region. 62.Sh SEE ALSO 63.Xr madvise 2 , 64.Xr mincore 2 , 65.Xr mprotect 2 , 66.Xr msync 2 , 67.Xr munmap 2 68.Sh HISTORY 69The 70.Fn minherit 71function first appeared in 72.Ox 2.0 . 73