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34.\" @(#)minherit.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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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.Ft int
46.Fn minherit "caddr_t addr" "size_t len" "int inherit"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn minherit
50system call
51changes the specified pages to have the inheritance characteristic
52.Fa inherit ,
53which can be set to VM_INHERIT_NONE, VM_INHERIT_COPY, or VM_INHERIT_SHARE.
54Not all implementations will guarantee that the inheritance characteristic
55can be set on a page basis;
56the granularity of changes may be as large as an entire region.
57.Sh SEE ALSO
58.Xr madvise 2 ,
59.Xr mincore 2 ,
60.Xr mprotect 2 ,
61.Xr msync 2 ,
62.Xr munmap 2
63.Sh HISTORY
64The
65.Fn minherit
66function first appeared in
67.Bx Open .