munmap(2) [hpux man page]

munmap(2)							System Calls Manual							 munmap(2)

NAME

       munmap - unmap pages of memory

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The  function  removes  the mappings for pages in the range [addr, addr+len], rounding the len argument up to the next multiple of the page
       size as returned by If addr is not the address of a mapping established by a prior call to the behavior is undefined.  After  a	successful
       call to and before any subsequent mapping of the unmapped pages, further references to these pages will result in the delivery of a or sig-
       nal to the process.

       If the specified address range was created by multiple calls to succeeds in unmapping all of the specified regions, provided  they  form  a
       contiguous address range.

       If the region was created with the option, any modifications made to the region are discarded.

RETURN VALUE

       Upon successful completion, returns Otherwise, it returns and sets to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       The function will fails if:

	      [EINVAL]	     The addr argument is not a multiple of the page size as returned by

	      [EINVAL]	     Addresses in the range [addr, addr+len], are outside the valid range for the address space of a process.

	      [EINVAL]	     The address range specified by addr and len was not created by a successful call to

	      [EINVAL]	     The len argument is

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP, AT&T, and OSF.

SEE ALSO

       mmap(2), sysconf(2), <signal.h>, <sys/mman.h>.

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

CHANGE HISTORY

       First released in Issue 4, Version 2.

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munmap(2)							System Calls Manual							 munmap(2)

Name
       munmap - unmaps memory of a character device

Syntax
       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <sys/mman.h>

       caddr_t munmap(addr, len)
       caddr_t addr;
       size_t len;

Arguments
       addr	 Specifies the address space of the calling process at which the unmapping begins.

       len	 Specifies the number of bytes to unmap.

Description
       The  system  call  unmaps  a  specified	number of bytes (len) starting at a specified address (addr) from the address space of the calling
       process.  You mapped this device in a previous call to Subsequent access to the unmapped region results in  a  signal.	You  cannot  unmap
       data, stack, and text segments using

       The system call rounds len to the nearest multiple of page size as returned by

       The range [addr, addr + len] may contain more than one mapped region created by In this case, unmaps all of the mapped regions.

Restrictions
       All  of	the  mapped  regions must be wholly contained in the range [addr, addr + len].	That is, addr must be the beginning of some mapped
       region and addr + len must be the end of some (possibly different) mapped region.

Return Value
       If successful, returns 0.  Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets the errno argument to one of the errors listed in the Diagnostics section.

Diagnostics
       The call to fails if one or more of the following is true:

       [EINVAL]  The address you specified in addr is not a multiple of the page size as returned by

       [EINVAL]  The addresses in the range [addr, addr + len] are not valid in the process address space.

       [EINVAL]  All of the segments being unmapped are not entirely contained in the range [addr, addr + len].

See Also
       getpagesize(2), getsysinfo(2), mmap(2)

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