munmap
Synopsis
#include <sys/mman.h>
int munmap(void *addr, size_t len);
Status
Partially implemented
Conformance
IEEE Std 1003.1-2017
Description
The munmap() function shall remove any mappings for those entire pages containing any part of the address space of the
process starting at addr and continuing for len bytes. Further, references to these pages shall result in the
generation of a SIGSEGV signal to the process. If there are no mappings in the specified address range, then
munmap() has no effect.
The implementation may require that addr be a multiple of the page size as returned by sysconf().
If a mapping to be removed was private, any modifications made in this address range shall be discarded.
Any memory locks (see mlock() and mlockall()) associated with this address range shall be removed, as if by an
appropriate call to munlock().
If a mapping removed from a typed memory object causes the corresponding address range of the memory pool to be
inaccessible by any process in the system except through allocatable mappings (that is, mappings of typed memory objects
opened with the POSIX_TYPED_MEM_MAP_ALLOCATABLE flag), then that range of the memory pool shall become deallocated and
may become available to satisfy future typed memory allocation requests.
A mapping removed from a typed memory object opened with the POSIX_TYPED_MEM_MAP_ALLOCATABLE flag shall not affect in
any way the availability of that typed memory for allocation.
The behavior of this function is unspecified if the mapping was not established by a call to mmap().
Return value
Upon successful completion, munmap() shall return 0; otherwise, it shall return -1 and set errno to indicate the
error.
Errors
The munmap() function shall fail if:
-
EINVAL- Addresses in the range (addr, addr + len) are outside the valid range for the address space of a process. -
EINVAL- The len argument is0.
The munmap() function may fail if:
EINVAL- The addr argument is not a multiple of the page size as returned bysysconf().
Tests
Untested
Known bugs
None