vm_map_find

Alexej Sokolov bsd.quest at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 15 21:15:45 PST 2008


On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:10:25PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 04:42 +0059, Alexej Sokolov wrote:
> > Hello,
> > my question is about vm_map_find (9)
> >  int
> >  vm_map_find(vm_map_t map, vm_object_t object, vm_ooffset_t offset,
> >          vm_offset_t *addr, vm_size_t length, boolean_t find_space,
> >          vm_prot_t prot, vm_prot_t max, int cow);
> > 
> > Could anyone explain what exactly parameter "cow" for ? Which values and
> > meanings ?
> 
> Well, cow is COPY_ON_WRITE.  See vm_map(9) for the list of flags.
> 
> robert.
Ok, 
thanx a lot, but I find it strange that the info about possible values
of "cow" isn't  present in man pages vm_map_insert and vm_map_find


Thnks again!

> 
> > man page dives not enough informations about it.
> > 
> > Thanks
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