MINHERIT(2)

NAME
minherit - control the inheritance of pages

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
int
minherit(caddr_t addr, size_t len, int inherit);

DESCRIPTION
The minherit() system call changes the specified pages to have the inheritance characteristic inherit, which can be set to VM_INHERIT_NONE, VM_INHERIT_COPY, or VM_INHERIT_SHARE. Not all implementations will guarantee that the inheritance characteristic can be set on a page basis; the granularity of changes may be as large as an entire region.

SEE ALSO
madvise(2), mincore(2), mprotect(2), msync(2), munmap(2)

HISTORY
The minherit() function first appeared in OpenBSD.