Index: stable/11/lib/libc/gen/signal.3 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/gen/signal.3 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/gen/signal.3 (revision 331185) @@ -1,272 +1,276 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)signal.3 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 7, 2004 +.Dd December 1, 2017 .Dt SIGNAL 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm signal .Nd simplified software signal facilities .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In signal.h .\" The following is Quite Ugly, but syntactically correct. .\" Don't try to fix it. .Ft void .Fn \*(lp*signal "int sig" "void \*(lp*func\*(rp\*(lpint\*(rp\*(rp\*(rp\*(lpint" .Pp or in .Fx Ap s equivalent but easier to read typedef'd version: .Ft typedef "void \*(lp*sig_t\*(rp \*(lpint\*(rp" ; .Pp .Ft sig_t .Fn signal "int sig" "sig_t func" .Sh DESCRIPTION This .Fn signal facility is a simplified interface to the more general .Xr sigaction 2 facility. .Pp Signals allow the manipulation of a process from outside its domain as well as allowing the process to manipulate itself or copies of itself (children). There are two general types of signals: those that cause termination of a process and those that do not. Signals which cause termination of a program might result from an irrecoverable error or might be the result of a user at a terminal typing the `interrupt' character. Signals are used when a process is stopped because it wishes to access its control terminal while in the background (see .Xr tty 4 ) . Signals are optionally generated when a process resumes after being stopped, when the status of child processes changes, or when input is ready at the control terminal. Most signals result in the termination of the process receiving them if no action is taken; some signals instead cause the process receiving them to be stopped, or are simply discarded if the process has not requested otherwise. Except for the .Dv SIGKILL and .Dv SIGSTOP signals, the .Fn signal function allows for a signal to be caught, to be ignored, or to generate an interrupt. These signals are defined in the file .In signal.h : .Bl -column No ".Dv SIGVTALRM" "create core image" .It Sy "Num" Ta Sy "Name" Ta Sy "Default Action" Ta Sy "Description" .It 1 Ta Dv SIGHUP Ta "terminate process" Ta "terminal line hangup" .It 2 Ta Dv SIGINT Ta "terminate process" Ta "interrupt program" .It 3 Ta Dv SIGQUIT Ta "create core image" Ta "quit program" .It 4 Ta Dv SIGILL Ta "create core image" Ta "illegal instruction" .It 5 Ta Dv SIGTRAP Ta "create core image" Ta "trace trap" .It 6 Ta Dv SIGABRT Ta "create core image" Ta "abort program" (formerly .Dv SIGIOT ) .It 7 Ta Dv SIGEMT Ta "create core image" Ta "emulate instruction executed" .It 8 Ta Dv SIGFPE Ta "create core image" Ta "floating-point exception" .It 9 Ta Dv SIGKILL Ta "terminate process" Ta "kill program" .It 10 Ta Dv SIGBUS Ta "create core image" Ta "bus error" .It 11 Ta Dv SIGSEGV Ta "create core image" Ta "segmentation violation" .It 12 Ta Dv SIGSYS Ta "create core image" Ta "non-existent system call invoked" .It 13 Ta Dv SIGPIPE Ta "terminate process" Ta "write on a pipe with no reader" .It 14 Ta Dv SIGALRM Ta "terminate process" Ta "real-time timer expired" .It 15 Ta Dv SIGTERM Ta "terminate process" Ta "software termination signal" .It 16 Ta Dv SIGURG Ta "discard signal" Ta "urgent condition present on socket" .It 17 Ta Dv SIGSTOP Ta "stop process" Ta "stop (cannot be caught or ignored)" .It 18 Ta Dv SIGTSTP Ta "stop process" Ta "stop signal generated from keyboard" .It 19 Ta Dv SIGCONT Ta "discard signal" Ta "continue after stop" .It 20 Ta Dv SIGCHLD Ta "discard signal" Ta "child status has changed" .It 21 Ta Dv SIGTTIN Ta "stop process" Ta "background read attempted from" control terminal .It 22 Ta Dv SIGTTOU Ta "stop process" Ta "background write attempted to" control terminal .It 23 Ta Dv SIGIO Ta "discard signal" Ta Tn "I/O" is possible on a descriptor (see .Xr fcntl 2 ) .It 24 Ta Dv SIGXCPU Ta "terminate process" Ta "cpu time limit exceeded (see" .Xr setrlimit 2 ) .It 25 Ta Dv SIGXFSZ Ta "terminate process" Ta "file size limit exceeded (see" .Xr setrlimit 2 ) .It 26 Ta Dv SIGVTALRM Ta "terminate process" Ta "virtual time alarm (see" .Xr setitimer 2 ) .It 27 Ta Dv SIGPROF Ta "terminate process" Ta "profiling timer alarm (see" .Xr setitimer 2 ) .It 28 Ta Dv SIGWINCH Ta "discard signal" Ta "Window size change" .It 29 Ta Dv SIGINFO Ta "discard signal" Ta "status request from keyboard" .It 30 Ta Dv SIGUSR1 Ta "terminate process" Ta "User defined signal 1" .It 31 Ta Dv SIGUSR2 Ta "terminate process" Ta "User defined signal 2" .It 32 Ta Dv SIGTHR Ta "terminate process" Ta "thread interrupt" .It 33 Ta Dv SIGLIBRT Ta "terminate process" Ta "real-time library interrupt" .El .Pp The .Fa sig argument specifies which signal was received. The .Fa func procedure allows a user to choose the action upon receipt of a signal. To set the default action of the signal to occur as listed above, .Fa func should be .Dv SIG_DFL . A .Dv SIG_DFL resets the default action. To ignore the signal .Fa func should be .Dv SIG_IGN . This will cause subsequent instances of the signal to be ignored and pending instances to be discarded. If .Dv SIG_IGN is not used, further occurrences of the signal are automatically blocked and .Fa func is called. .Pp The handled signal is unblocked when the function returns and the process continues from where it left off when the signal occurred. .Bf -symbolic Unlike previous signal facilities, the handler func() remains installed after a signal has been delivered. .Ef .Pp For some system calls, if a signal is caught while the call is executing and the call is prematurely terminated, the call is automatically restarted. Any handler installed with .Xr signal 3 will have the .Dv SA_RESTART flag set, meaning that any restartable system call will not return on receipt of a signal. The affected system calls include .Xr read 2 , .Xr write 2 , .Xr sendto 2 , .Xr recvfrom 2 , .Xr sendmsg 2 and .Xr recvmsg 2 on a communications channel or a low speed device and during a .Xr ioctl 2 or .Xr wait 2 . However, calls that have already committed are not restarted, but instead return a partial success (for example, a short read count). These semantics could be changed with .Xr siginterrupt 3 . .Pp When a process which has installed signal handlers forks, the child process inherits the signals. All caught signals may be reset to their default action by a call to the .Xr execve 2 function; ignored signals remain ignored. .Pp If a process explicitly specifies .Dv SIG_IGN as the action for the signal .Dv SIGCHLD , the system will not create zombie processes when children of the calling process exit. As a consequence, the system will discard the exit status from the child processes. If the calling process subsequently issues a call to .Xr wait 2 or equivalent, it will block until all of the calling process's children terminate, and then return a value of \-1 with .Va errno set to .Er ECHILD . .Pp See .Xr sigaction 2 for a list of functions that are considered safe for use in signal handlers. .Sh RETURN VALUES The previous action is returned on a successful call. Otherwise, SIG_ERR is returned and the global variable .Va errno is set to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS The .Fn signal function will fail and no action will take place if one of the following occur: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL The .Fa sig argument is not a valid signal number. .It Bq Er EINVAL An attempt is made to ignore or supply a handler for .Dv SIGKILL or .Dv SIGSTOP . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kill 1 , .Xr kill 2 , .Xr ptrace 2 , .Xr sigaction 2 , .Xr sigaltstack 2 , .Xr sigprocmask 2 , .Xr sigsuspend 2 , .Xr wait 2 , .Xr fpsetmask 3 , .Xr setjmp 3 , .Xr siginterrupt 3 , .Xr tty 4 .Sh HISTORY The +.Fn signal +function appeared in +.At v4 . +The current .Nm facility appeared in .Bx 4.0 . The option to avoid the creation of child zombies through ignoring .Dv SIGCHLD appeared in .Fx 5.0 . Index: stable/11/lib/libc/sys/dup.2 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/sys/dup.2 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/sys/dup.2 (revision 331185) @@ -1,169 +1,171 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)dup.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 1, 2013 +.Dd December 1, 2017 .Dt DUP 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm dup , .Nm dup2 .Nd duplicate an existing file descriptor .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In unistd.h .Ft int .Fn dup "int oldd" .Ft int .Fn dup2 "int oldd" "int newd" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn dup system call duplicates an existing object descriptor and returns its value to the calling process .Fa ( newd = .Fn dup oldd ) . The argument .Fa oldd is a small non-negative integer index in the per-process descriptor table. The new descriptor returned by the call is the lowest numbered descriptor currently not in use by the process. .Pp The object referenced by the descriptor does not distinguish between .Fa oldd and .Fa newd in any way. Thus if .Fa newd and .Fa oldd are duplicate references to an open file, .Xr read 2 , .Xr write 2 and .Xr lseek 2 calls all move a single pointer into the file, and append mode, non-blocking I/O and asynchronous I/O options are shared between the references. If a separate pointer into the file is desired, a different object reference to the file must be obtained by issuing an additional .Xr open 2 system call. The close-on-exec flag on the new file descriptor is unset. .Pp In .Fn dup2 , the value of the new descriptor .Fa newd is specified. If this descriptor is already in use and .Fa oldd \*(Ne .Fa newd , the descriptor is first deallocated as if the .Xr close 2 system call had been used. If .Fa oldd is not a valid descriptor, then .Fa newd is not closed. If .Fa oldd == .Fa newd and .Fa oldd is a valid descriptor, then .Fn dup2 is successful, and does nothing. .Sh RETURN VALUES These calls return the new file descriptor if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the external variable .Va errno is set to indicate the cause of the error. .Sh ERRORS The .Fn dup system call fails if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBADF The .Fa oldd argument is not a valid active descriptor .It Bq Er EMFILE Too many descriptors are active. .El .Pp The .Fn dup2 system call fails if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBADF The .Fa oldd argument is not a valid active descriptor or the .Fa newd argument is negative or exceeds the maximum allowable descriptor number .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr accept 2 , .Xr close 2 , .Xr fcntl 2 , .Xr getdtablesize 2 , .Xr open 2 , .Xr pipe 2 , .Xr socket 2 , .Xr socketpair 2 , .Xr dup3 3 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn dup and .Fn dup2 system calls are expected to conform to .St -p1003.1-90 . .Sh HISTORY The .Fn dup -and +function appeared in +.At v3 . +The .Fn dup2 -functions appeared in +function appeared in .At v7 . Index: stable/11/lib/libc/sys/getuid.2 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/sys/getuid.2 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/sys/getuid.2 (revision 331185) @@ -1,89 +1,89 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)getuid.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .Dd December 15, 2015 .Dt GETUID 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm getuid , .Nm geteuid .Nd get user identification .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In unistd.h .Ft uid_t .Fn getuid void .Ft uid_t .Fn geteuid void .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn getuid system call returns the real user ID of the calling process. The .Fn geteuid system call returns the effective user ID of the calling process. .Pp The real user ID is that of the user who has invoked the program. As the effective user ID gives the process additional permissions during execution of .Dq Em set-user-ID mode processes, .Fn getuid is used to determine the real-user-id of the calling process. .Sh ERRORS The .Fn getuid and .Fn geteuid system calls are always successful, and no return value is reserved to indicate an error. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr getgid 2 , .Xr issetugid 2 , .Xr setgid 2 , .Xr setreuid 2 , .Xr setuid 2 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn geteuid and .Fn getuid system calls are expected to conform to .St -p1003.1-90 . .Sh HISTORY The .Fn getuid and .Fn geteuid functions appeared in -.At v7 . +.At v4 . Index: stable/11/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/sys/kill.2 (revision 331185) @@ -1,156 +1,160 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)kill.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd March 15, 2012 +.Dd December 1, 2017 .Dt KILL 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm kill .Nd send signal to a process .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In sys/types.h .In signal.h .Ft int .Fn kill "pid_t pid" "int sig" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn kill system call sends the signal given by .Fa sig to .Fa pid , a process or a group of processes. The .Fa sig argument may be one of the signals specified in .Xr sigaction 2 or it may be 0, in which case error checking is performed but no signal is actually sent. This can be used to check the validity of .Fa pid . .Pp For a process to have permission to send a signal to a process designated by .Fa pid , the user must be the super-user, or the real or saved user ID of the receiving process must match the real or effective user ID of the sending process. A single exception is the signal SIGCONT, which may always be sent to any process with the same session ID as the sender. In addition, if the .Va security.bsd.conservative_signals .Xr sysctl 9 is set to 1, the user is not a super-user, and the receiver is set-uid, then only job control and terminal control signals may be sent (in particular, only SIGKILL, SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGALRM, SIGSTOP, SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, SIGTSTP, SIGHUP, SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2). .Bl -tag -width Ds .It \&If Fa pid No \&is greater than zero : The .Fa sig signal is sent to the process whose ID is equal to .Fa pid . .It \&If Fa pid No \&is zero : The .Fa sig signal is sent to all processes whose group ID is equal to the process group ID of the sender, and for which the process has permission; this is a variant of .Xr killpg 2 . .It \&If Fa pid No \&is -1 : If the user has super-user privileges, the signal is sent to all processes excluding system processes (with .Dv P_SYSTEM flag set), process with ID 1 (usually .Xr init 8 ) , and the process sending the signal. If the user is not the super user, the signal is sent to all processes with the same uid as the user excluding the process sending the signal. No error is returned if any process could be signaled. .El .Pp For compatibility with System V, if the process number is negative but not -1, the signal is sent to all processes whose process group ID is equal to the absolute value of the process number. This is a variant of .Xr killpg 2 . .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std kill .Sh ERRORS The .Fn kill system call will fail and no signal will be sent if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL The .Fa sig argument is not a valid signal number. .It Bq Er ESRCH No process or process group can be found corresponding to that specified by .Fa pid . .It Bq Er EPERM The sending process does not have permission to send .Va sig to the receiving process. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr getpgrp 2 , .Xr getpid 2 , .Xr killpg 2 , .Xr sigaction 2 , .Xr sigqueue 2 , .Xr raise 3 , .Xr init 8 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn kill system call is expected to conform to .St -p1003.1-90 . .Sh HISTORY -The +A version of the .Fn kill function appeared in -.At v7 . +.At v3 . +The signal number was added to the +.Fn kill +function in +.At v4 . Index: stable/11/lib/libc/sys/mknod.2 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/sys/mknod.2 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/sys/mknod.2 (revision 331185) @@ -1,182 +1,182 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)mknod.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .Dd January 16, 2011 .Dt MKNOD 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm mknod , .Nm mknodat .Nd make a special file node .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In sys/stat.h .Ft int .Fn mknod "const char *path" "mode_t mode" "dev_t dev" .Ft int .Fn mknodat "int fd" "const char *path" "mode_t mode" "dev_t dev" .Sh DESCRIPTION The file system node .Fa path is created with the file type and access permissions specified in .Fa mode . The access permissions are modified by the process's umask value. .Pp If .Fa mode indicates a block or character special file, .Fa dev is a configuration dependent specification denoting a particular device on the system. Otherwise, .Fa dev is ignored. .Pp The .Fn mknod system call requires super-user privileges. .Pp The .Fn mknodat system call is equivalent to .Fn mknod except in the case where .Fa path specifies a relative path. In this case the newly created device node is created relative to the directory associated with the file descriptor .Fa fd instead of the current working directory. If .Fn mknodat is passed the special value .Dv AT_FDCWD in the .Fa fd parameter, the current working directory is used and the behavior is identical to a call to .Fn mknod . .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std mknod .Sh ERRORS The .Fn mknod system call will fail and the file will be not created if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er ENOTDIR A component of the path prefix is not a directory. .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. .It Bq Er ENOENT A component of the path prefix does not exist. .It Bq Er EACCES Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. .It Bq Er ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. .It Bq Er EPERM The process's effective user ID is not super-user. .It Bq Er EIO An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode. .It Bq Er ENOSPC The directory in which the entry for the new node is being placed cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file system containing the directory. .It Bq Er ENOSPC There are no free inodes on the file system on which the node is being created. .It Bq Er EDQUOT The directory in which the entry for the new node is being placed cannot be extended because the user's quota of disk blocks on the file system containing the directory has been exhausted. .It Bq Er EDQUOT The user's quota of inodes on the file system on which the node is being created has been exhausted. .It Bq Er EROFS The named file resides on a read-only file system. .It Bq Er EEXIST The named file exists. .It Bq Er EFAULT The .Fa path argument points outside the process's allocated address space. .It Bq Er EINVAL Creating anything else than a block or character special file (or a .Em whiteout ) is not supported. .El .Pp In addition to the errors returned by the .Fn mknod , the .Fn mknodat may fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBADF The .Fa path argument does not specify an absolute path and the .Fa fd argument is neither .Dv AT_FDCWD nor a valid file descriptor open for searching. .It Bq Er ENOTDIR The .Fa path argument is not an absolute path and .Fa fd is neither .Dv AT_FDCWD nor a file descriptor associated with a directory. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr chmod 2 , .Xr mkfifo 2 , .Xr stat 2 , .Xr umask 2 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn mknodat system call follows The Open Group Extended API Set 2 specification. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn mknod function appeared in -.At v6 . +.At v4 . The .Fn mknodat system call appeared in .Fx 8.0 . Index: stable/11/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/sys/pipe.2 (revision 331185) @@ -1,178 +1,178 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)pipe.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 20, 2016 +.Dd December 1, 2017 .Dt PIPE 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pipe , .Nm pipe2 .Nd create descriptor pair for interprocess communication .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In unistd.h .Ft int .Fn pipe "int fildes[2]" .Ft int .Fn pipe2 "int fildes[2]" "int flags" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn pipe function creates a .Em pipe , which is an object allowing bidirectional data flow, and allocates a pair of file descriptors. .Pp The .Fn pipe2 system call allows control over the attributes of the file descriptors via the .Fa flags argument. Values for .Fa flags are constructed by a bitwise-inclusive OR of flags from the following list, defined in .In fcntl.h : .Bl -tag -width ".Dv O_NONBLOCK" .It Dv O_CLOEXEC Set the close-on-exec flag for the new file descriptors. .It Dv O_NONBLOCK Set the non-blocking flag for the ends of the pipe. .El .Pp If the .Fa flags argument is 0, the behavior is identical to a call to .Fn pipe . .Pp By convention, the first descriptor is normally used as the .Em read end of the pipe, and the second is normally the .Em write end , so that data written to .Fa fildes[1] appears on (i.e., can be read from) .Fa fildes[0] . This allows the output of one program to be sent to another program: the source's standard output is set up to be the write end of the pipe, and the sink's standard input is set up to be the read end of the pipe. The pipe itself persists until all its associated descriptors are closed. .Pp A pipe that has had an end closed is considered .Em widowed . Writing on such a pipe causes the writing process to receive a .Dv SIGPIPE signal. Widowing a pipe is the only way to deliver end-of-file to a reader: after the reader consumes any buffered data, reading a widowed pipe returns a zero count. .Pp The bidirectional nature of this implementation of pipes is not portable to older systems, so it is recommended to use the convention for using the endpoints in the traditional manner when using a pipe in one direction. .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES The .Fn pipe function calls the .Fn pipe2 system call. As a result, system call traces such as those captured by .Xr dtrace 1 or .Xr ktrace 1 will show calls to .Fn pipe2 . .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std pipe .Sh ERRORS The .Fn pipe and .Fn pipe2 system calls will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EFAULT .Ar fildes argument points to an invalid memory location. .It Bq Er EMFILE Too many descriptors are active. .It Bq Er ENFILE The system file table is full. .It Bq Er ENOMEM Not enough kernel memory to establish a pipe. .El .Pp The .Fn pipe2 system call will also fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL The .Fa flags argument is invalid. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr sh 1 , .Xr fork 2 , .Xr read 2 , .Xr socketpair 2 , .Xr write 2 .Sh HISTORY The .Fn pipe function appeared in .At v3 . .Pp Bidirectional pipes were first used on .At V.4 . .Pp The .Fn pipe2 function appeared in .Fx 10.0 . .Pp The .Fn pipe function became a wrapper around .Fn pipe2 in .Fx 11.0 . Index: stable/11/lib/libc/sys/profil.2 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/sys/profil.2 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/sys/profil.2 (revision 331185) @@ -1,122 +1,122 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by .\" Donn Seeley of BSDI. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)profil.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 4, 1993 +.Dd December 1, 2017 .Dt PROFIL 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm profil .Nd control process profiling .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In unistd.h .Ft int .Fn profil "char *samples" "size_t size" "vm_offset_t offset" "int scale" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn profil system call enables or disables program counter profiling of the current process. If profiling is enabled, then at every profiling clock tick, the kernel updates an appropriate count in the .Fa samples buffer. The frequency of the profiling clock is recorded in the header in the profiling output file. .Pp The buffer .Fa samples contains .Fa size bytes and is divided into a series of 16-bit bins. Each bin counts the number of times the program counter was in a particular address range in the process when a profiling clock tick occurred while profiling was enabled. For a given program counter address, the number of the corresponding bin is given by the relation: .Bd -literal -offset indent [(pc - offset) / 2] * scale / 65536 .Ed .Pp The .Fa offset argument is the lowest address at which the kernel takes program counter samples. The .Fa scale argument ranges from 1 to 65536 and can be used to change the span of the bins. A scale of 65536 maps each bin to 2 bytes of address range; a scale of 32768 gives 4 bytes, 16384 gives 8 bytes and so on. Intermediate values provide approximate intermediate ranges. A .Fa scale value of 0 disables profiling. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std profil .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /usr/lib/gcrt0.o -compact .It Pa /usr/lib/gcrt0.o profiling C run-time startup file .It Pa gmon.out conventional name for profiling output file .El .Sh ERRORS The following error may be reported: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EFAULT The buffer .Fa samples contains an invalid address. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr gprof 1 .Sh HISTORY The .Fn profil function appeared in -.At v7 . +.At v6 . .Sh BUGS This routine should be named .Fn profile . .Pp The .Fa samples argument should really be a vector of type .Fa "unsigned short" . .Pp The format of the gmon.out file is undocumented. Index: stable/11/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 (revision 331185) @@ -1,1108 +1,1108 @@ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" $NetBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.2 1995/02/27 12:35:37 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" This file is in the public domain. -.Dd September 14, 2017 +.Dd December 1, 2017 .Dt PTRACE 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm ptrace .Nd process tracing and debugging .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In sys/types.h .In sys/ptrace.h .Ft int .Fn ptrace "int request" "pid_t pid" "caddr_t addr" "int data" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn ptrace system call provides tracing and debugging facilities. It allows one process (the .Em tracing process) to control another (the .Em traced process). The tracing process must first attach to the traced process, and then issue a series of .Fn ptrace system calls to control the execution of the process, as well as access process memory and register state. For the duration of the tracing session, the traced process will be .Dq re-parented , with its parent process ID (and resulting behavior) changed to the tracing process. It is permissible for a tracing process to attach to more than one other process at a time. When the tracing process has completed its work, it must detach the traced process; if a tracing process exits without first detaching all processes it has attached, those processes will be killed. .Pp Most of the time, the traced process runs normally, but when it receives a signal (see .Xr sigaction 2 ) , it stops. The tracing process is expected to notice this via .Xr wait 2 or the delivery of a .Dv SIGCHLD signal, examine the state of the stopped process, and cause it to terminate or continue as appropriate. The signal may be a normal process signal, generated as a result of traced process behavior, or use of the .Xr kill 2 system call; alternatively, it may be generated by the tracing facility as a result of attaching, stepping by the tracing process, or an event in the traced process. The tracing process may choose to intercept the signal, using it to observe process behavior (such as .Dv SIGTRAP ) , or forward the signal to the process if appropriate. The .Fn ptrace system call is the mechanism by which all this happens. .Pp A traced process may report additional signal stops corresponding to events in the traced process. These additional signal stops are reported as .Dv SIGTRAP or .Dv SIGSTOP signals. The tracing process can use the .Dv PT_LWPINFO request to determine which events are associated with a .Dv SIGTRAP or .Dv SIGSTOP signal. Note that multiple events may be associated with a single signal. For example, events indicated by the .Dv PL_FLAG_BORN , .Dv PL_FLAG_FORKED , and .Dv PL_FLAG_EXEC flags are also reported as a system call exit event .Pq Dv PL_FLAG_SCX . The signal stop for a new child process enabled via .Dv PTRACE_FORK will report a .Dv SIGSTOP signal. All other additional signal stops use .Dv SIGTRAP . .Pp Each traced process has a tracing event mask. An event in the traced process only reports a signal stop if the corresponding flag is set in the tracing event mask. The current set of tracing event flags include: .Bl -tag -width "Dv PTRACE_SYSCALL" .It Dv PTRACE_EXEC Report a stop for a successful invocation of .Xr execve 2 . This event is indicated by the .Dv PL_FLAG_EXEC flag in the .Va pl_flags member of .Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" . .It Dv PTRACE_SCE Report a stop on each system call entry. This event is indicated by the .Dv PL_FLAG_SCE flag in the .Va pl_flags member of .Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" . .It Dv PTRACE_SCX Report a stop on each system call exit. This event is indicated by the .Dv PL_FLAG_SCX flag in the .Va pl_flags member of .Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" . .It Dv PTRACE_SYSCALL Report stops for both system call entry and exit. .It Dv PTRACE_FORK This event flag controls tracing for new child processes of a traced process. .Pp When this event flag is enabled, new child processes will enable tracing and stop before executing their first instruction. The new child process will include the .Dv PL_FLAG_CHILD flag in the .Va pl_flags member of .Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" . The traced process will report a stop that includes the .Dv PL_FLAG_FORKED flag. The process ID of the new child process will also be present in the .Va pl_child_pid member of .Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" . If the new child process was created via .Xr vfork 2 , the traced process's stop will also include the .Dv PL_FLAG_VFORKED flag. Note that new child processes will be attached with the default tracing event mask; they do not inherit the event mask of the traced process. .Pp When this event flag is not enabled, new child processes will execute without tracing enabled. .It Dv PTRACE_LWP This event flag controls tracing of LWP .Pq kernel thread creation and destruction. When this event is enabled, new LWPs will stop and report an event with .Dv PL_FLAG_BORN set before executing their first instruction, and exiting LWPs will stop and report an event with .Dv PL_FLAG_EXITED set before completing their termination. .Pp Note that new processes do not report an event for the creation of their initial thread, and exiting processes do not report an event for the termination of the last thread. .It Dv PTRACE_VFORK Report a stop event when a parent process resumes after a .Xr vfork 2 . .Pp When a thread in the traced process creates a new child process via .Xr vfork 2 , the stop that reports .Dv PL_FLAG_FORKED and .Dv PL_FLAG_SCX occurs just after the child process is created, but before the thread waits for the child process to stop sharing process memory. If a debugger is not tracing the new child process, it must ensure that no breakpoints are enabled in the shared process memory before detaching from the new child process. This means that no breakpoints are enabled in the parent process either. .Pp The .Dv PTRACE_VFORK flag enables a new stop that indicates when the new child process stops sharing the process memory of the parent process. A debugger can reinsert breakpoints in the parent process and resume it in response to this event. This event is indicated by setting the .Dv PL_FLAG_VFORK_DONE flag. .El .Pp The default tracing event mask when attaching to a process via .Dv PT_ATTACH , .Dv PT_TRACE_ME , or .Dv PTRACE_FORK includes only .Dv PTRACE_EXEC events. All other event flags are disabled. .Pp The .Fa request argument specifies what operation is being performed; the meaning of the rest of the arguments depends on the operation, but except for one special case noted below, all .Fn ptrace calls are made by the tracing process, and the .Fa pid argument specifies the process ID of the traced process or a corresponding thread ID. The .Fa request argument can be: .Bl -tag -width "Dv PT_GET_EVENT_MASK" .It Dv PT_TRACE_ME This request is the only one used by the traced process; it declares that the process expects to be traced by its parent. All the other arguments are ignored. (If the parent process does not expect to trace the child, it will probably be rather confused by the results; once the traced process stops, it cannot be made to continue except via .Fn ptrace . ) When a process has used this request and calls .Xr execve 2 or any of the routines built on it (such as .Xr execv 3 ) , it will stop before executing the first instruction of the new image. Also, any setuid or setgid bits on the executable being executed will be ignored. If the child was created by .Xr vfork 2 system call or .Xr rfork 2 call with the .Dv RFMEM flag specified, the debugging events are reported to the parent only after the .Xr execve 2 is executed. .It Dv PT_READ_I , Dv PT_READ_D These requests read a single .Vt int of data from the traced process's address space. Traditionally, .Fn ptrace has allowed for machines with distinct address spaces for instruction and data, which is why there are two requests: conceptually, .Dv PT_READ_I reads from the instruction space and .Dv PT_READ_D reads from the data space. In the current .Fx implementation, these two requests are completely identical. The .Fa addr argument specifies the address (in the traced process's virtual address space) at which the read is to be done. This address does not have to meet any alignment constraints. The value read is returned as the return value from .Fn ptrace . .It Dv PT_WRITE_I , Dv PT_WRITE_D These requests parallel .Dv PT_READ_I and .Dv PT_READ_D , except that they write rather than read. The .Fa data argument supplies the value to be written. .It Dv PT_IO This request allows reading and writing arbitrary amounts of data in the traced process's address space. The .Fa addr argument specifies a pointer to a .Vt "struct ptrace_io_desc" , which is defined as follows: .Bd -literal struct ptrace_io_desc { int piod_op; /* I/O operation */ void *piod_offs; /* child offset */ void *piod_addr; /* parent offset */ size_t piod_len; /* request length */ }; /* * Operations in piod_op. */ #define PIOD_READ_D 1 /* Read from D space */ #define PIOD_WRITE_D 2 /* Write to D space */ #define PIOD_READ_I 3 /* Read from I space */ #define PIOD_WRITE_I 4 /* Write to I space */ .Ed .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. The actual number of bytes read or written is stored in .Va piod_len upon return. .It Dv PT_CONTINUE The traced process continues execution. The .Fa addr argument is an address specifying the place where execution is to be resumed (a new value for the program counter), or .Po Vt caddr_t Pc Ns 1 to indicate that execution is to pick up where it left off. The .Fa data argument provides a signal number to be delivered to the traced process as it resumes execution, or 0 if no signal is to be sent. .It Dv PT_STEP The traced process is single stepped one instruction. The .Fa addr argument should be passed .Po Vt caddr_t Pc Ns 1 . The .Fa data argument provides a signal number to be delivered to the traced process as it resumes execution, or 0 if no signal is to be sent. .It Dv PT_KILL The traced process terminates, as if .Dv PT_CONTINUE had been used with .Dv SIGKILL given as the signal to be delivered. .It Dv PT_ATTACH This request allows a process to gain control of an otherwise unrelated process and begin tracing it. It does not need any cooperation from the to-be-traced process. In this case, .Fa pid specifies the process ID of the to-be-traced process, and the other two arguments are ignored. This request requires that the target process must have the same real UID as the tracing process, and that it must not be executing a setuid or setgid executable. (If the tracing process is running as root, these restrictions do not apply.) The tracing process will see the newly-traced process stop and may then control it as if it had been traced all along. .It Dv PT_DETACH This request is like PT_CONTINUE, except that it does not allow specifying an alternate place to continue execution, and after it succeeds, the traced process is no longer traced and continues execution normally. .It Dv PT_GETREGS This request reads the traced process's machine registers into the .Do .Vt "struct reg" .Dc (defined in .In machine/reg.h ) pointed to by .Fa addr . .It Dv PT_SETREGS This request is the converse of .Dv PT_GETREGS ; it loads the traced process's machine registers from the .Do .Vt "struct reg" .Dc (defined in .In machine/reg.h ) pointed to by .Fa addr . .It Dv PT_GETFPREGS This request reads the traced process's floating-point registers into the .Do .Vt "struct fpreg" .Dc (defined in .In machine/reg.h ) pointed to by .Fa addr . .It Dv PT_SETFPREGS This request is the converse of .Dv PT_GETFPREGS ; it loads the traced process's floating-point registers from the .Do .Vt "struct fpreg" .Dc (defined in .In machine/reg.h ) pointed to by .Fa addr . .It Dv PT_GETDBREGS This request reads the traced process's debug registers into the .Do .Vt "struct dbreg" .Dc (defined in .In machine/reg.h ) pointed to by .Fa addr . .It Dv PT_SETDBREGS This request is the converse of .Dv PT_GETDBREGS ; it loads the traced process's debug registers from the .Do .Vt "struct dbreg" .Dc (defined in .In machine/reg.h ) pointed to by .Fa addr . .It Dv PT_LWPINFO This request can be used to obtain information about the kernel thread, also known as light-weight process, that caused the traced process to stop. The .Fa addr argument specifies a pointer to a .Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" , which is defined as follows: .Bd -literal struct ptrace_lwpinfo { lwpid_t pl_lwpid; int pl_event; int pl_flags; sigset_t pl_sigmask; sigset_t pl_siglist; siginfo_t pl_siginfo; char pl_tdname[MAXCOMLEN + 1]; pid_t pl_child_pid; u_int pl_syscall_code; u_int pl_syscall_narg; }; .Ed .Pp The .Fa data argument is to be set to the size of the structure known to the caller. This allows the structure to grow without affecting older programs. .Pp The fields in the .Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" have the following meaning: .Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It Va pl_lwpid LWP id of the thread .It Va pl_event Event that caused the stop. Currently defined events are: .Bl -tag -width "Dv PL_EVENT_SIGNAL" -compact .It Dv PL_EVENT_NONE No reason given .It Dv PL_EVENT_SIGNAL Thread stopped due to the pending signal .El .It Va pl_flags Flags that specify additional details about observed stop. Currently defined flags are: .Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It Dv PL_FLAG_SCE The thread stopped due to system call entry, right after the kernel is entered. The debugger may examine syscall arguments that are stored in memory and registers according to the ABI of the current process, and modify them, if needed. .It Dv PL_FLAG_SCX The thread is stopped immediately before syscall is returning to the usermode. The debugger may examine system call return values in the ABI-defined registers and/or memory. .It Dv PL_FLAG_EXEC When .Dv PL_FLAG_SCX is set, this flag may be additionally specified to inform that the program being executed by debuggee process has been changed by successful execution of a system call from the .Fn execve 2 family. .It Dv PL_FLAG_SI Indicates that .Va pl_siginfo member of .Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" contains valid information. .It Dv PL_FLAG_FORKED Indicates that the process is returning from a call to .Fn fork 2 that created a new child process. The process identifier of the new process is available in the .Va pl_child_pid member of .Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" . .It Dv PL_FLAG_CHILD The flag is set for first event reported from a new child which is automatically attached when .Dv PTRACE_FORK is enabled. .It Dv PL_FLAG_BORN This flag is set for the first event reported from a new LWP when .Dv PTRACE_LWP is enabled. It is reported along with .Dv PL_FLAG_SCX . .It Dv PL_FLAG_EXITED This flag is set for the last event reported by an exiting LWP when .Dv PTRACE_LWP is enabled. Note that this event is not reported when the last LWP in a process exits. The termination of the last thread is reported via a normal process exit event. .It Dv PL_FLAG_VFORKED Indicates that the thread is returning from a call to .Xr vfork 2 that created a new child process. This flag is set in addition to .Dv PL_FLAG_FORKED . .It Dv PL_FLAG_VFORK_DONE Indicates that the thread has resumed after a child process created via .Xr vfork 2 has stopped sharing its address space with the traced process. .El .It Va pl_sigmask The current signal mask of the LWP .It Va pl_siglist The current pending set of signals for the LWP. Note that signals that are delivered to the process would not appear on an LWP siglist until the thread is selected for delivery. .It Va pl_siginfo The siginfo that accompanies the signal pending. Only valid for .Dv PL_EVENT_SIGNAL stop when .Dv PL_FLAG_SI is set in .Va pl_flags . .It Va pl_tdname The name of the thread. .It Va pl_child_pid The process identifier of the new child process. Only valid for a .Dv PL_EVENT_SIGNAL stop when .Dv PL_FLAG_FORKED is set in .Va pl_flags . .It Va pl_syscall_code The ABI-specific identifier of the current system call. Note that for indirect system calls this field reports the indirected system call. Only valid when .Dv PL_FLAG_SCE or .Dv PL_FLAG_SCX is set in .Va pl_flags. .It Va pl_syscall_narg The number of arguments passed to the current system call not counting the system call identifier. Note that for indirect system calls this field reports the arguments passed to the indirected system call. Only valid when .Dv PL_FLAG_SCE or .Dv PL_FLAG_SCX is set in .Va pl_flags. .El .It Dv PT_GETNUMLWPS This request returns the number of kernel threads associated with the traced process. .It Dv PT_GETLWPLIST This request can be used to get the current thread list. A pointer to an array of type .Vt lwpid_t should be passed in .Fa addr , with the array size specified by .Fa data . The return value from .Fn ptrace is the count of array entries filled in. .It Dv PT_SETSTEP This request will turn on single stepping of the specified process. .It Dv PT_CLEARSTEP This request will turn off single stepping of the specified process. .It Dv PT_SUSPEND This request will suspend the specified thread. .It Dv PT_RESUME This request will resume the specified thread. .It Dv PT_TO_SCE This request will set the .Dv PTRACE_SCE event flag to trace all future system call entries and continue the process. The .Fa addr and .Fa data arguments are used the same as for .Dv PT_CONTINUE. .It Dv PT_TO_SCX This request will set the .Dv PTRACE_SCX event flag to trace all future system call exits and continue the process. The .Fa addr and .Fa data arguments are used the same as for .Dv PT_CONTINUE. .It Dv PT_SYSCALL This request will set the .Dv PTRACE_SYSCALL event flag to trace all future system call entries and exits and continue the process. The .Fa addr and .Fa data arguments are used the same as for .Dv PT_CONTINUE. .It Dv PT_GET_SC_ARGS For the thread which is stopped in either .Dv PL_FLAG_SCE or .Dv PL_FLAG_SCX state, that is, on entry or exit to a syscall, this request fetches the syscall arguments. .Pp The arguments are copied out into the buffer pointed to by the .Fa addr pointer, sequentially. Each syscall argument is stored as the machine word. Kernel copies out as many arguments as the syscall accepts, see the .Va pl_syscall_narg member of the .Vt struct ptrace_lwpinfo , but not more than the .Fa data bytes in total are copied. .It Dv PT_FOLLOW_FORK This request controls tracing for new child processes of a traced process. If .Fa data is non-zero, .Dv PTRACE_FORK is set in the traced process's event tracing mask. If .Fa data is zero, .Dv PTRACE_FORK is cleared from the traced process's event tracing mask. .It Dv PT_LWP_EVENTS This request controls tracing of LWP creation and destruction. If .Fa data is non-zero, .Dv PTRACE_LWP is set in the traced process's event tracing mask. If .Fa data is zero, .Dv PTRACE_LWP is cleared from the traced process's event tracing mask. .It Dv PT_GET_EVENT_MASK This request reads the traced process's event tracing mask into the integer pointed to by .Fa addr . The size of the integer must be passed in .Fa data . .It Dv PT_SET_EVENT_MASK This request sets the traced process's event tracing mask from the integer pointed to by .Fa addr . The size of the integer must be passed in .Fa data . .It Dv PT_VM_TIMESTAMP This request returns the generation number or timestamp of the memory map of the traced process as the return value from .Fn ptrace . This provides a low-cost way for the tracing process to determine if the VM map changed since the last time this request was made. .It Dv PT_VM_ENTRY This request is used to iterate over the entries of the VM map of the traced process. The .Fa addr argument specifies a pointer to a .Vt "struct ptrace_vm_entry" , which is defined as follows: .Bd -literal struct ptrace_vm_entry { int pve_entry; int pve_timestamp; u_long pve_start; u_long pve_end; u_long pve_offset; u_int pve_prot; u_int pve_pathlen; long pve_fileid; uint32_t pve_fsid; char *pve_path; }; .Ed .Pp The first entry is returned by setting .Va pve_entry to zero. Subsequent entries are returned by leaving .Va pve_entry unmodified from the value returned by previous requests. The .Va pve_timestamp field can be used to detect changes to the VM map while iterating over the entries. The tracing process can then take appropriate action, such as restarting. By setting .Va pve_pathlen to a non-zero value on entry, the pathname of the backing object is returned in the buffer pointed to by .Va pve_path , provided the entry is backed by a vnode. The .Va pve_pathlen field is updated with the actual length of the pathname (including the terminating null character). The .Va pve_offset field is the offset within the backing object at which the range starts. The range is located in the VM space at .Va pve_start and extends up to .Va pve_end (inclusive). .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. .El .Sh ARM MACHINE-SPECIFIC REQUESTS .Bl -tag -width "Dv PT_SETVFPREGS" .It Dv PT_GETVFPREGS Return the thread's .Dv VFP machine state in the buffer pointed to by .Fa addr . .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. .It Dv PT_SETVFPREGS Set the thread's .Dv VFP machine state from the buffer pointed to by .Fa addr . .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. .El .Pp .Sh x86 MACHINE-SPECIFIC REQUESTS .Bl -tag -width "Dv PT_GETXSTATE_INFO" .It Dv PT_GETXMMREGS Copy the XMM FPU state into the buffer pointed to by the argument .Fa addr . The buffer has the same layout as the 32-bit save buffer for the machine instruction .Dv FXSAVE . .Pp This request is only valid for i386 programs, both on native 32-bit systems and on amd64 kernels. For 64-bit amd64 programs, the XMM state is reported as part of the FPU state returned by the .Dv PT_GETFPREGS request. .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. .It Dv PT_SETXMMREGS Load the XMM FPU state for the thread from the buffer pointed to by the argument .Fa addr . The buffer has the same layout as the 32-bit load buffer for the machine instruction .Dv FXRSTOR . .Pp As with .Dv PT_GETXMMREGS, this request is only valid for i386 programs. .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. .It Dv PT_GETXSTATE_INFO Report which XSAVE FPU extensions are supported by the CPU and allowed in userspace programs. The .Fa addr argument must point to a variable of type .Vt struct ptrace_xstate_info , which contains the information on the request return. .Vt struct ptrace_xstate_info is defined as follows: .Bd -literal struct ptrace_xstate_info { uint64_t xsave_mask; uint32_t xsave_len; }; .Ed The .Dv xsave_mask field is a bitmask of the currently enabled extensions. The meaning of the bits is defined in the Intel and AMD processor documentation. The .Dv xsave_len field reports the length of the XSAVE area for storing the hardware state for currently enabled extensions in the format defined by the x86 .Dv XSAVE machine instruction. .Pp The .Fa data argument value must be equal to the size of the .Vt struct ptrace_xstate_info . .It Dv PT_GETXSTATE Return the content of the XSAVE area for the thread. The .Fa addr argument points to the buffer where the content is copied, and the .Fa data argument specifies the size of the buffer. The kernel copies out as much content as allowed by the buffer size. The buffer layout is specified by the layout of the save area for the .Dv XSAVE machine instruction. .It Dv PT_SETXSTATE Load the XSAVE state for the thread from the buffer specified by the .Fa addr pointer. The buffer size is passed in the .Fa data argument. The buffer must be at least as large as the .Vt struct savefpu (defined in .Pa x86/fpu.h ) to allow the complete x87 FPU and XMM state load. It must not be larger than the XSAVE state length, as reported by the .Dv xsave_len field from the .Vt struct ptrace_xstate_info of the .Dv PT_GETXSTATE_INFO request. Layout of the buffer is identical to the layout of the load area for the .Dv XRSTOR machine instruction. .It Dv PT_GETFSBASE Return the value of the base used when doing segmented memory addressing using the %fs segment register. The .Fa addr argument points to an .Vt unsigned long variable where the base value is stored. .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. .It Dv PT_GETGSBASE Like the .Dv PT_GETFSBASE request, but returns the base for the %gs segment register. .It Dv PT_SETFSBASE Set the base for the %fs segment register to the value pointed to by the .Fa addr argument. .Fa addr must point to the .Vt unsigned long variable containing the new base. .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. .It Dv PT_SETGSBASE Like the .Dv PT_SETFSBASE request, but sets the base for the %gs segment register. .El .Sh PowerPC MACHINE-SPECIFIC REQUESTS .Bl -tag -width "Dv PT_SETVRREGS" .It Dv PT_GETVRREGS Return the thread's .Dv ALTIVEC machine state in the buffer pointed to by .Fa addr . .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. .It Dv PT_SETVRREGS Set the thread's .Dv ALTIVEC machine state from the buffer pointed to by .Fa addr . .Pp The .Fa data argument is ignored. .El .Pp Additionally, other machine-specific requests can exist. .Sh RETURN VALUES Most requests return 0 on success and \-1 on error. Some requests can cause .Fn ptrace to return \-1 as a non-error value, among them are .Dv PT_READ_I and .Dv PT_READ_D , which return the value read from the process memory on success. To disambiguate, .Va errno can be set to 0 before the call and checked afterwards. .Pp The current .Fn ptrace implementation always sets .Va errno to 0 before calling into the kernel, both for historic reasons and for consistency with other operating systems. It is recommended to assign zero to .Va errno explicitly for forward compatibility. .Sh ERRORS The .Fn ptrace system call may fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er ESRCH .Bl -bullet -compact .It No process having the specified process ID exists. .El .It Bq Er EINVAL .Bl -bullet -compact .It A process attempted to use .Dv PT_ATTACH on itself. .It The .Fa request argument was not one of the legal requests. .It The signal number (in .Fa data ) to .Dv PT_CONTINUE was neither 0 nor a legal signal number. .It .Dv PT_GETREGS , .Dv PT_SETREGS , .Dv PT_GETFPREGS , .Dv PT_SETFPREGS , .Dv PT_GETDBREGS , or .Dv PT_SETDBREGS was attempted on a process with no valid register set. (This is normally true only of system processes.) .It .Dv PT_VM_ENTRY was given an invalid value for .Fa pve_entry . This can also be caused by changes to the VM map of the process. .It The size (in .Fa data ) provided to .Dv PT_LWPINFO was less than or equal to zero, or larger than the .Vt ptrace_lwpinfo structure known to the kernel. .It The size (in .Fa data ) provided to the x86-specific .Dv PT_GETXSTATE_INFO request was not equal to the size of the .Vt struct ptrace_xstate_info . .It The size (in .Fa data ) provided to the x86-specific .Dv PT_SETXSTATE request was less than the size of the x87 plus the XMM save area. .It The size (in .Fa data ) provided to the x86-specific .Dv PT_SETXSTATE request was larger than returned in the .Dv xsave_len member of the .Vt struct ptrace_xstate_info from the .Dv PT_GETXSTATE_INFO request. .It The base value, provided to the amd64-specific requests .Dv PT_SETFSBASE or .Dv PT_SETGSBASE , pointed outside of the valid user address space. This error will not occur in 32-bit programs. .El .It Bq Er EBUSY .Bl -bullet -compact .It .Dv PT_ATTACH was attempted on a process that was already being traced. .It A request attempted to manipulate a process that was being traced by some process other than the one making the request. .It A request (other than .Dv PT_ATTACH ) specified a process that was not stopped. .El .It Bq Er EPERM .Bl -bullet -compact .It A request (other than .Dv PT_ATTACH ) attempted to manipulate a process that was not being traced at all. .It An attempt was made to use .Dv PT_ATTACH on a process in violation of the requirements listed under .Dv PT_ATTACH above. .El .It Bq Er ENOENT .Bl -bullet -compact .It .Dv PT_VM_ENTRY previously returned the last entry of the memory map. No more entries exist. .El .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG .Bl -bullet -compact .It .Dv PT_VM_ENTRY cannot return the pathname of the backing object because the buffer is not big enough. .Fa pve_pathlen holds the minimum buffer size required on return. .El .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr execve 2 , .Xr sigaction 2 , .Xr wait 2 , .Xr execv 3 , .Xr i386_clr_watch 3 , .Xr i386_set_watch 3 .Sh HISTORY The .Fn ptrace function appeared in -.At v7 . +.At v6 . Index: stable/11/lib/libc/sys/setuid.2 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/sys/setuid.2 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/sys/setuid.2 (revision 331185) @@ -1,187 +1,187 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)setuid.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .Dd December 15, 2015 .Dt SETUID 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm setuid , .Nm seteuid , .Nm setgid , .Nm setegid .Nd set user and group ID .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In unistd.h .Ft int .Fn setuid "uid_t uid" .Ft int .Fn seteuid "uid_t euid" .Ft int .Fn setgid "gid_t gid" .Ft int .Fn setegid "gid_t egid" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn setuid system call sets the real and effective user IDs and the saved set-user-ID of the current process to the specified value. .\" Comment out next block for !_POSIX_SAVED_IDS .\" The real user ID and the saved set-user-ID are changed only if the .\" effective user ID is that of the super user. .\" I.e. .\" .Fn setuid .\" system call is equal to .\" .Fn seteuid .\" system call if the effective user ID is not that of the super user. .\" End of block The .Fn setuid system call is permitted if the specified ID is equal to the real user ID .\" Comment out next line for !_POSIX_SAVED_IDS .\" or the saved set-user-ID .\" Next line is for Appendix B.4.2.2 case. or the effective user ID of the process, or if the effective user ID is that of the super user. .Pp The .Fn setgid system call sets the real and effective group IDs and the saved set-group-ID of the current process to the specified value. .\" Comment out next block for !_POSIX_SAVED_IDS .\" The real group ID and the saved set-group-ID are changed only if the .\" effective user ID is that of the super user. .\" I.e. .\" .Fn setgid .\" system call is equal to .\" .Fn setegid .\" system call if the effective user ID is not that of the super user. .\" End of block The .Fn setgid system call is permitted if the specified ID is equal to the real group ID .\" Comment out next line for !_POSIX_SAVED_IDS .\" or the saved set-group-ID .\" Next line is for Appendix B.4.2.2 case. or the effective group ID of the process, or if the effective user ID is that of the super user. .Pp The .Fn seteuid system call .Pq Fn setegid sets the effective user ID (group ID) of the current process. The effective user ID may be set to the value of the real user ID or the saved set-user-ID (see .Xr intro 2 and .Xr execve 2 ) ; in this way, the effective user ID of a set-user-ID executable may be toggled by switching to the real user ID, then re-enabled by reverting to the set-user-ID value. Similarly, the effective group ID may be set to the value of the real group ID or the saved set-group-ID. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std .Sh ERRORS The system calls will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EPERM The user is not the super user and the ID specified is not the real, effective ID, or saved ID. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr getgid 2 , .Xr getuid 2 , .Xr issetugid 2 , .Xr setregid 2 , .Xr setreuid 2 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn setuid and .Fn setgid system calls are compliant with the .St -p1003.1-90 specification with .Li _POSIX_SAVED_IDS .\" Uncomment next line for !_POSIX_SAVED_IDS not defined with the permitted extensions from Appendix B.4.2.2. The .Fn seteuid and .Fn setegid system calls are extensions based on the .Tn POSIX concept of .Li _POSIX_SAVED_IDS , and have been proposed for a future revision of the standard. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn setuid and .Fn setgid functions appeared in -.At v7 . +.At v4 . .Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS Read and write permissions to files are determined upon a call to .Xr open 2 . Once a file descriptor is open, dropping privilege does not affect the process's read/write permissions, even if the user ID specified has no read or write permissions to the file. These files normally remain open in any new process executed, resulting in a user being able to read or modify potentially sensitive data. .Pp To prevent these files from remaining open after an .Xr exec 3 call, be sure to set the close-on-exec flag: .Bd -literal void pseudocode(void) { int fd; /* ... */ fd = open("/path/to/sensitive/data", O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC); if (fd == -1) err(1, "open"); /* ... */ execve(path, argv, environ); } .Ed Index: stable/11/lib/libc/sys/sync.2 =================================================================== --- stable/11/lib/libc/sys/sync.2 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11/lib/libc/sys/sync.2 (revision 331185) @@ -1,77 +1,77 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software .\" without specific prior written permission. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)sync.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 4, 1993 +.Dd December 1, 2017 .Dt SYNC 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm sync .Nd "schedule file system updates" .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS .In unistd.h .Ft void .Fn sync void .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn sync system call forces a write of dirty (modified) buffers in the block buffer cache out to disk. The kernel keeps this information in core to reduce the number of disk I/O transfers required by the system. As information in the cache is lost after a system crash, a .Fn sync system call is issued frequently by the kernel process .Xr syncer 4 (about every 30 seconds). .Pp The .Xr fsync 2 system call may be used to synchronize individual file descriptor attributes. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr fsync 2 , .Xr syncer 4 , .Xr sync 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Fn sync function appeared in -.At v6 . +.At v3 . .Sh BUGS The .Fn sync system call may return before the buffers are completely flushed. Index: stable/11 =================================================================== --- stable/11 (revision 331184) +++ stable/11 (revision 331185) Property changes on: stable/11 ___________________________________________________________________ Modified: svn:mergeinfo ## -0,0 +0,1 ## Merged /head:r326437