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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2007 22:19:28 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        yuri@tsoft.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 'break' system call man page is missing?
Message-ID:  <20071101091927.GA89821@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <1193901348.47297d249cb88@webmail.rawbw.com>
References:  <1193901348.47297d249cb88@webmail.rawbw.com>

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:15:48AM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> I can't find man page for system call break.
> /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/ seems to have sources for many man pages but not for break.
> 
> In the mean time in one case it fails for me with errno=22 (Invalid argument).
> Is it's argument (pointer) related to /proc/##/map? One of the blocks mentioned
> in this map file has upper limit equal to the argument pointer of break.

Are you looking for brk(2)?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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