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--- a/man3/mpool.3
+++ b/man3/mpool.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)mpool.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
-.TH mpool 3 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH mpool 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.UC 7
.SH NAME
mpool \- shared memory buffer pool
@@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ Standard C library
.nf
.B #include <db.h>
.B #include <mpool.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "MPOOL *mpool_open(DBT *" key ", int " fd ", pgno_t " pagesize \
", pgno_t " maxcache );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "void mpool_filter(MPOOL *" mp ", void (*pgin)(void *, pgno_t, void *),"
.BI " void (*" pgout ")(void *, pgno_t, void *),"
.BI " void *" pgcookie );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "void *mpool_new(MPOOL *" mp ", pgno_t *" pgnoaddr );
.BI "void *mpool_get(MPOOL *" mp ", pgno_t " pgno ", unsigned int " flags );
.BI "int mpool_put(MPOOL *" mp ", void *" pgaddr ", unsigned int " flags );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int mpool_sync(MPOOL *" mp );
.BI "int mpool_close(MPOOL *" mp );
.fi
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ Since glibc 2.2, glibc no longer provides these interfaces.
Probably, you are looking for the APIs provided by the
.I libdb
library instead.
-.PP
+.P
.I Mpool
is the library interface intended to provide page oriented buffer management
of files.
The buffers may be shared between processes.
-.PP
+.P
The function
.BR mpool_open ()
initializes a memory pool.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ If
is non-NULL and matches a file already being mapped, the
.I fd
argument is ignored.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I pagesize
argument is the size, in bytes, of the pages into which the file is broken up.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ at any one time.
This value is not relative to the number of processes which share a file's
buffers, but will be the largest value specified by any of the processes
sharing the file.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR mpool_filter ()
function is intended to make transparent input and output processing of the
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ backing file.
Both functions are called with the
.I pgcookie
pointer, the page number and a pointer to the page to being read or written.
-.PP
+.P
The function
.BR mpool_new ()
takes an
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ address.
Otherwise, NULL is returned and
.I errno
is set.
-.PP
+.P
The function
.BR mpool_get ()
takes an
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ is set.
The
.I flags
argument is not currently used.
-.PP
+.P
The function
.BR mpool_put ()
unpins the page referenced by
@@ -132,10 +132,10 @@ any of the following values:
.TP
.B MPOOL_DIRTY
The page has been modified and needs to be written to the backing file.
-.PP
+.P
.BR mpool_put ()
returns 0 on success and \-1 if an error occurs.
-.PP
+.P
The function
.BR mpool_sync ()
writes all modified pages associated with the
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ pointer to the
backing file.
.BR mpool_sync ()
returns 0 on success and \-1 if an error occurs.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR mpool_close ()
function free's up any allocated memory associated with the memory pool
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ function may fail and set
.I errno
for any of the errors specified for the library routine
.BR malloc (3).
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR mpool_get ()
function may fail and set
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ for the following:
.TP 15
.B EINVAL
The requested record doesn't exist.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR mpool_new ()
and
@@ -182,14 +182,14 @@ for any of the errors specified for the library routines
.BR write (2),
and
.BR malloc (3).
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR mpool_sync ()
function may fail and set
.I errno
for any of the errors specified for the library routine
.BR write (2).
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR mpool_close ()
function may fail and set