Name

minherit - control the inheritance of pages

Synopsis

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

int
minherit(caddr_t addr, size_t len, int inherit);

Description

The minherit() system call changes the specified pages to have the inheritance characteristic inherit, which can be set to VM_INHERIT_NONE, VM_INHERIT_COPY, or VM_INHERIT_SHARE. Not all implementations will guarantee that the inheritance characteristic can be set on a page basis; the granularity of changes may be as large as an entire region.

See Also

madvise(2) , mincore(2) , mprotect(2) , msync(2) , munmap(2)

History

The minherit() function first appeared in OpenBSD.

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