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37 .Nd control the inheritance of pages
43 .Fn minherit "void *addr" "size_t len" "int inherit"
48 changes the specified pages to have the inheritance characteristic
50 Not all implementations will guarantee that the inheritance characteristic
51 can be set on a page basis;
52 the granularity of changes may be as large as an entire region.
54 is capable of adjusting inheritance characteristics on a page basis.
55 Inheritance only effects children created by
59 exec'd processes replace their address space entirely.
61 has no effect on the parent's address space (other than to potentially
62 share the address space with its children).
64 Inheritance is a rather esoteric feature largely superseded by the
68 However, it is possible to use
70 to share a block of memory between parent and child that has been mapped
72 That is, modifications made by parent or child are shared but
73 the original underlying file is left untouched.
74 .Bl -tag -width ".Dv INHERIT_SHARE"
76 This option causes the address space in question to be shared between
78 It has no effect on how the original underlying backing
81 This option prevents the address space in question from being inherited
83 The address space will be unmapped in the child.
85 This option causes the child to inherit the address space as copy-on-write.
86 This option also has an unfortunate side effect of causing the parent
87 address space to become copy-on-write when the parent forks.
88 If the original mapping was
90 it will no longer be shared in the parent
91 after the parent forks and there is no way to get the previous
92 shared-backing-store mapping without unmapping and remapping the address
100 system call will fail if:
103 The virtual address range specified by the
107 arguments is not valid.
109 The flags specified by the
111 argument were not valid for the pages specified
129 system call first appeared in
134 Once you set inheritance to
138 there is no way to recover the original copy-on-write semantics
139 short of unmapping and remapping the area.