hpux man page for munlockall

Query: munlockall

OS: hpux

Section: 2

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munlockall(2)							System Calls Manual						     munlockall(2)

NAME
munlockall() - unlock the entire virtual address space of a process
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The system call allows the calling process to unlock any portions of its virtual address space that have previously been locked into memory with or including any portions locked due to the option of Upon successful completion of the all pages within the process virtual address space are subject to routine paging and/or swapping and the option will no longer be in effect for the process. Regardless of how many times a process locks a page, a single will unlock it. When memory is shared by multiple processes and mlocks are applied to the same physical page by multiple processes, a page remains locked until the last lock is removed from that page. The effective user ID of the calling process must be a user with the privilege. Although and the family of functions may be used together in an application, each may affect the other in unexpected ways. This practice is not recommended. Security Restrictions Some or all of the actions associated with this system call require the privilege. Processes owned by the superuser have this privilege. Processes owned by other users may have this privilege, depending on system configuration. See privileges(5) for more information about privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges.
RETURN VALUE
returns the following values: Successful completion. Failure. The requested operation is not performed. is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If fails, is set to the following value: The effective user ID of the calling process is not a user with the privilege.
EXAMPLES
The following call to unlocks the process virtual address space:
SEE ALSO
setprivgrp(1M), getprivgrp(2), mlock(2), mlockall(2), munlock(2), plock(2), privileges(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
munlockall(2)
Related Man Pages
munlockall(2) - freebsd
mlockall(2) - freebsd
munlock(2) - hpux
mlockall(2) - netbsd
munlockall(3c) - sunos
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