mdoc(7) police: markup and spelling fixes.

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Ruslan Ermilov
2001-08-27 08:26:57 +00:00
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@@ -61,32 +61,39 @@ Inheritance only effects children created by
.Fn fork .
It has no effect on
.Fn exec .
exec'd processes replace their address space entirely. This function also
has no effect on the parent's address space (other then to potentially
exec'd processes replace their address space entirely.
This function also
has no effect on the parent's address space (other than to potentially
share the address space with its children).
.Pp
Inheritance is a rather esoteric feature largely superceeded by the
MAP_SHARED feature of
Inheritance is a rather esoteric feature largely superseded by the
.Dv MAP_SHARED
feature of
.Fn mmap .
However, it is possible to use
.Fn minherit
to share a block of memory between parent and child that has been mapped
MAP_PRIVATE. That is, modifications made by parent or child are shared but
.Dv MAP_PRIVATE .
That is, modifications made by parent or child are shared but
the original underlying file is left untouched.
.Bl -tag -width MAP_HASSEMAPHORE
.Bl -tag -width ".Dv INHERIT_SHARE"
.It Dv INHERIT_SHARE
This option causes the address space in question to be shared between
parent and child. It has no effect on how the original underlying backing
parent and child.
It has no effect on how the original underlying backing
store was mapped.
.It Dv INHERIT_NONE
This option prevents the address space in question from being inherited
at all. The address space will be unmapped in the child.
This option prevents the address space in question from being inherited
at all.
The address space will be unmapped in the child.
.It Dv INHERIT_COPY
This option causes the child to inherit the address space as copy-on-write.
This option also has an unfortunate side effect of causing the parent
address space to become copy-on-write when the parent forks. If the
original mapping was MAP_SHARED, it will no longer be shared in the parent
after the parent forks and there is no way to get the previous
address space to become copy-on-write when the parent forks.
If the original mapping was
.Dv MAP_SHARED ,
it will no longer be shared in the parent
after the parent forks and there is no way to get the previous
shared-backing-store mapping without unmapping and remapping the address
space in the parent.
.El
@@ -114,9 +121,12 @@ and
arguments.
.El
.Sh BUGS
Once you set inheritance to MAP_PRIVATE or MAP_SHARED, there is no way to
recover the originanl copy-on-write semantics short of unmapping and remapping
the area.
Once you set inheritance to
.Dv MAP_PRIVATE
or
.Dv MAP_SHARED ,
there is no way to recover the original copy-on-write semantics
short of unmapping and remapping the area.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fork 2 ,
.Xr madvise 2 ,