SWAPCONTEXT(2) Linux 2.6 Programmer's Guide SWAPCONTEXT(2)
NAME
swapcontext - Swap out old context with new context
SYNOPSIS
int sys_swapcontext (struct ucontext *old_ctx, struct ucontext *new_ctx, int r5, int r6, int r7, int r8, struct pt_regs *regs);
DESCRIPTION
swapcontext swaps out context old_ctx with new context new_ctx. The int r# values have no place in the system call functionality. The regs
value indicates the current user register values from the user stack.
RETURN VALUE
swapcontext returns 0 on success; otherwise, swapcontext returns one of the errors listed in the "Errors" section.
ERRORS
-EFAULT
swapcontext could not verify that the memory area pointed to by old_ctx or new_ctx was accessible for the operation.
-SIGSEGV
A fault occurred when the context was being copied into the kernel's image of the user's registers. The should only occur in an out-
of-memory situation.
SEE ALSO
getcontext(2), sigaction(2), sigaltstack(2), sigprocmask(2)
AUTHOR
Niki Rahimi
Linux 2.6 2004-March-12 SWAPCONTEXT(2)
