1.\" $OpenBSD: shmat.2,v 1.6 1999/05/27 14:05:10 aaron Exp $ 2.\" $NetBSD: shmat.2,v 1.2 1997/03/27 08:20:38 mikel Exp $ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Frank van der Linden 5.\" All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project 18.\" by Frank van der Linden 19.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 20.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 23.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 24.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 25.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 26.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 27.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 28.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 29.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 30.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 31.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\"/ 33.Dd August 17, 1995 34.Dt SHMAT 2 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm shmat , 38.Nm shmdt 39.Nd map/unmap shared memory 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Fd #include <sys/types.h> 42.Fd #include <sys/ipc.h> 43.Fd #include <sys/shm.h> 44.Ft void * 45.Fn shmat "int shmid" "const void *shmaddr" "int shmflg" 46.Ft int 47.Fn shmdt "const void *shmaddr" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49.Fn shmat 50maps the shared memory segment associated with the shared memory identifier 51.Fa shmid 52into the address space of the calling process. The address at which the 53segment is mapped is determined by the 54.Fa shmaddr 55parameter. If it is equal to 0, the system will pick an address itself. 56Otherwise, an attempt is made to map the shared memory segment at the 57address 58.Fa shmaddr 59specifies. If SHM_RND is set in 60.Fa shmflg , 61the system will round the address down to a multiple of SHMLBA bytes 62(SHMLBA is defined in 63.Aq Pa sys/shm.h 64). 65.Pp 66A shared memory segment can be mapped read-only by specifying the 67SHM_RDONLY flag in 68.Fa shmflg . 69.Pp 70.Fn shmdt 71unmaps the shared memory segment that is currently mapped at 72.Fa shmaddr 73from the calling process' address space. 74.Fa shmaddr 75must be a value returned by a prior 76.Fn shmat 77call. A shared memory segment will remain existant until it is removed by 78a call to 79.Xr shmctl 2 80with the 81.Dv IPC_RMID 82command. 83.Sh RETURN VALUES 84.Fn shmat 85returns the address at which the shared memory segment has been mapped into 86the calling process' address space when successful, 87.Fn shmdt 88returns 0 on successful completion. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned, 89and the global variable 90.Va errno 91is set to indicate the error. 92.Sh ERRORS 93.Fn shmat 94will fail if: 95.Bl -tag -width Er 96.It Bq Er EACCES 97The calling process has no permission to access this shared memory segment. 98.It Bq Er ENOMEM 99There is not enough available data space for the calling process to 100map the shared memory segment. 101.It Bq Er EINVAL 102.Fa shmid 103is not a valid shared memory identifier. 104.Pp 105.Fa shmaddr 106specifies an illegal address. 107.It Bq Er EMFILE 108The number of shared memory segments has reached the system-wide limit. 109.El 110.Pp 111.Fn shmdt 112will fail if: 113.Bl -tag -width Er 114.It Bq Er EINVAL 115.Fa shmaddr 116is not the start address of a mapped shared memory segment. 117.Sh SEE ALSO 118.Xr mmap 2 , 119.Xr shmctl 2 , 120.Xr shmget 2 121