Query: munmap
OS: ultrix
Section: 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) munmap(2)