HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 2 System Calls (vol 5)

munlockall(2) munlockall(2)

NAME

munlockall() - unlock the entire virtual address space of a process

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/mman.h>

int munlockall() ;

DESCRIPTION

The munlockall() system call allows the calling process to unlock any portions of its virtual address

space that have previously been locked into memory with

mlock() or mlockall(), including any por-

tions locked due to the

MCL_FUTURE option of

mlockall(). Upon successful completion of the mun-

lockall(), all pages within the process virtual address space are subject to routine paging and/or

swapping and the MCL_FUTURE option will no longer be in effect for the process.

Regardless of how many times a process locks a page, a single

munlockall() 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 superuser or the user must be a member of a group

that has the MLOCK privilege (see getprivgrp (2) and setprivgrp (1M)).

Although

plock() and the mlock() family of functions may be used together in an application, each

may affect the other in unexpected ways. This practice is not recommended.

RETURN VALUE

munlockall() returns the following values:

0 Successful completion.

-1 Failure. The requested operation is not performed. errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

munlockall() fails, errno is set to the following value:

[EPERM] The effective user ID of the calling process is not a superuser and the user does not

belong to a group that has the

MLOCK privilege.

EXAMPLES

The following call to

munlockall() unlocks the process virtual address space:

munlockall();