From 1d73bec4c1de40b38225913b26eca78e600a482f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Belousov Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:55:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Do not claim that msync(2) is obsoleted [1]. Document EIO from msync(2). Inspired by PR: docs/165929 [1] Reviewed by: jilles MFC after: 2 weeks --- lib/libc/sys/mmap.2 | 4 ++-- lib/libc/sys/msync.2 | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2 b/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2 index e66f12807b7..73ffb2ead67 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)mmap.2 8.4 (Berkeley) 5/11/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 28, 2010 +.Dd March 18, 2012 .Dt MMAP 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ command and system call generally do not flush dirty NOSYNC VM data. The .Xr msync 2 -system call is obsolete since +system call is usually not needed since .Bx implements a coherent file system buffer cache. However, it may be diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/msync.2 b/lib/libc/sys/msync.2 index cb1592575b5..42d8005418d 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/msync.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/msync.2 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)msync.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 6/21/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 21, 1994 +.Dd March 18, 2012 .Dt MSYNC 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ The argument was both MS_ASYNC and MS_INVALIDATE. Only one of these flags is allowed. +.It Bq Er EIO + An error occurred while writing at least one of the pages in +the specified region. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr madvise 2 , @@ -113,7 +116,7 @@ system call first appeared in .Sh BUGS The .Fn msync -system call is obsolete since +system call is usually not needed since .Bx implements a coherent file system buffer cache. However, it may be used to associate dirty VM pages with file system -- 2.45.2