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MMAN.H 3HEAD "Feb 5, 2008"
NAME
mman.h, mman - memory management declarations
SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/mman.h>
DESCRIPTION

The <sys/mman.h> header supports the following options:

the Memory Mapped Files option

the Shared Memory Objects option

the Process Memory Locking option

the Memory Protection option

the Synchronized Input and Output option

For Memory Mapped Files and Shared Memory Objects options, the following protection options are defined: PROT_READ

Page can be read.

PROT_WRITE

Page can be written.

PROT_EXEC

Page can be executed.

PROT_NONE

Page cannot be accessed.

The following flag options are defined: MAP_SHARED

Share changes.

MAP_PRIVATE

Changes are private.

MAP_FIXED

Interpret addr exactly.

The flags immediately following are defined for msync(). See msync(3C). MS_ASYNC

Perform asynchronous writes.

MS_SYNC

Perform synchronous writes.

MS_INVALIDATE

Invalidate mappings.

The symbolic constants immediately following are defined for the mlockall() function. See mlockall(3C). MCL_CURRENT

Lock currently mapped pages.

MCL_FUTURE

Lock pages that become mapped.

The symbolic constant MAP_FAILED is defined to indicate a failure from the mmap() function. See mmap(2).

The mode_t, off_t, and size_t types are be defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types(3HEAD).

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability Committed
Standard See standards(5).
SEE ALSO

mmap(2), mprotect(2), munmap(2), madvise(3C), mlock(3C), mlockall(3C), msync(3C), shm_open(3C), shm_unlink(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)