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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man2/brk.2 b/static/openbsd/man2/brk.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..970e4217 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man2/brk.2 @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: brk.2,v 1.24 2019/09/08 22:50:59 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: brk.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:31:57 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. 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. Neither the name of the University 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 REGENTS 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 REGENTS 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. +.\" +.\" @(#)brk.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 8 2019 $ +.Dt BRK 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm brk , +.Nm sbrk +.Nd change data segment size +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In unistd.h +.Ft int +.Fn brk "void *addr" +.Ft void * +.Fn sbrk "int incr" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Bf -symbolic +The +.Fn brk +and +.Fn sbrk +functions are historical curiosities +left over from earlier days before the advent of virtual memory management. +.Ef +The +.Fn brk +function sets the break or lowest address +of a process's data segment (uninitialized data) to +.Fa addr +(immediately above bss). +Data addressing is restricted between +.Fa addr +and the lowest stack pointer to the stack segment. +Memory is allocated by +.Fn brk +in page size pieces; +if +.Fa addr +is not evenly divisible by the system page size, it is +increased to the next page boundary. +.Pp +.\" The +.\" .Nm sbrk +.\" function +.\" allocates chunks of +.\" .Fa incr +.\" bytes +.\" to the process's data space +.\" and returns an address pointer. +.\" The +.\" .Xr malloc 3 +.\" function utilizes +.\" .Nm sbrk . +.\" .Pp +The current value of the program break is reliably returned by +.Dq Li sbrk(0) +(see also +.Xr end 3 ) . +The +.Xr getrlimit 2 +system call may be used to determine +the maximum permissible size of the +.Em data +segment; +it will not be possible to set the break +beyond the +.Fa rlim_max +value returned from a call to +.Xr getrlimit 2 , +e.g., +.Ql etext + rlp->rlim_max +(see +.Xr end 3 +for the definition of +.Em etext ) . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Rv -std brk +.Pp +The +.Fn sbrk +function returns a pointer to the base of the new storage if successful; +otherwise \-1 with +.Va errno +set to indicate why the allocation failed. +.Sh ERRORS +.Fn sbrk +will fail and no additional memory will be allocated if +one of the following are true: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er ENOMEM +The limit, as set by +.Xr setrlimit 2 , +was exceeded. +.It Bq Er ENOMEM +The maximum possible size of a data segment (compiled into the +system) was exceeded. +.It Bq Er ENOMEM +Insufficient space existed in the swap area +to support the expansion. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr execve 2 , +.Xr getrlimit 2 , +.Xr mmap 2 , +.Xr end 3 , +.Xr malloc 3 +.Sh HISTORY +A predecessor +.Fn break +appeared in +.At v1 . +The +.Fn sbrk +function call first appeared in +.At v4 +and +.Fn brk +in +.At v6 . +.Sh BUGS +Setting the break may fail due to a temporary lack of swap space. +It is not possible to distinguish this from a failure caused by exceeding +the maximum size of the data segment without consulting +.Xr getrlimit 2 . |
