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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) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man2/msync.2 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
docs: Added All OpenBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man2/msync.2 b/static/openbsd/man2/msync.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2660fa69 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man2/msync.2 @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: msync.2,v 1.30 2024/01/21 17:46:03 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: msync.2,v 1.8 1995/10/12 15:41:09 jtc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 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. +.\" +.\" @(#)msync.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2024 $ +.Dt MSYNC 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm msync +.Nd synchronize a mapped region +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/mman.h +.Ft int +.Fn msync "void *addr" "size_t len" "int flags" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn msync +system call writes all pages with shared modifications +in the specified region starting from +.Fa addr +and continuing for +.Fa len +bytes. +.Fa addr +should be a multiple of the page size. +Any required synchronization of memory caches +will also take place at this time. +Filesystem operations on a file that is mapped for shared modifications +are unpredictable except after an +.Fn msync . +.Pp +The +.Fa flags +argument is the bitwise OR of zero or more of the following values: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +MS_ASYNC Perform asynchronous writes. +MS_SYNC Perform synchronous writes. +MS_INVALIDATE Invalidate cached data after writing. +.Ed +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Rv -std +.Sh ERRORS +The following errors may be reported: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EBUSY +The +.Dv MS_INVALIDATE +flag was specified and a portion of the specified region +was locked with +.Xr mlock 2 . +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The specified +.Fa flags +argument was invalid. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The +.Fa addr +parameter was not page aligned or +.Fa addr +and +.Fa size +specify a region that would extend beyond the end of the address space. +.It Bq Er EPERM +The +.Fa addr +and +.Fa len +parameters specify a region which contains at least one page marked immutable. +.It Bq Er ENOMEM +Addresses in the specified region are outside the range allowed +for the address space of the process, or specify one or more pages +which are unmapped. +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred while writing. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr madvise 2 , +.Xr mimmutable 2 , +.Xr minherit 2 , +.Xr mprotect 2 , +.Xr munmap 2 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn msync +function has been available since +.Bx 4.3 Net/2 . +It was modified to conform to +.St -p1003.1b-93 +.Sh BUGS +Writes are currently done synchronously even if the +.Dv MS_ASYNC +flag is specified. |
