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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\"
.\" Kernel commit d97b46a64674a267bc41c9e16132ee2a98c3347d
.\"
-.TH kcmp 2 2023-05-03 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH kcmp 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
kcmp \- compare two processes to determine if they share a kernel resource
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ Standard C library
.BR "#include <linux/kcmp.h>" " /* Definition of " KCMP_* " constants */"
.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" " /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */"
.B #include <unistd.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int syscall(SYS_kcmp, pid_t " pid1 ", pid_t " pid2 ", int " type ,
.BI " unsigned long " idx1 ", unsigned long " idx2 );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.IR Note :
glibc provides no wrapper for
.BR kcmp (),
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ and
.I pid2
share a kernel resource such as virtual memory, file descriptors,
and so on.
-.PP
+.P
Permission to employ
.BR kcmp ()
is governed by ptrace access mode
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ and
.IR pid2 ;
see
.BR ptrace (2).
-.PP
+.P
The
.I type
argument specifies which resource is to be compared in the two processes.
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ The argument
.I idx2
is a pointer to a structure where the target file is described.
This structure has the form:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
struct kcmp_epoll_slot {
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ struct kcmp_epoll_slot {
};
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
Within this structure,
.I efd
is an epoll file descriptor returned from
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ is a target file offset counted from zero.
Several different targets may be registered with
the same file descriptor number and setting a specific
offset helps to investigate each of them.
-.PP
+.P
Note the
.BR kcmp ()
is not protected against false positives which may occur if
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ The return value of a successful call to
is simply the result of arithmetic comparison
of kernel pointers (when the kernel compares resources, it uses their
memory addresses).
-.PP
+.P
The easiest way to explain is to consider an example.
Suppose that
.I v1
@@ -231,11 +231,11 @@ is not equal to
.IR v2 ,
but ordering information is unavailable.
.RE
-.PP
+.P
On error, \-1 is returned, and
.I errno
is set to indicate the error.
-.PP
+.P
.BR kcmp ()
was designed to return values suitable for sorting.
This is particularly handy if one needs to compare
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ does not exist.
Linux.
.SH HISTORY
Linux 3.5.
-.PP
+.P
Before Linux 5.12,
this system call is available only if the kernel is configured with
.BR CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE ,
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ the same open file description.
The program tests different cases for the file descriptor pairs,
as described in the program output.
An example run of the program is as follows:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
$ \fB./a.out\fP