MUNLOCK(3P)

💖 MUNLOCK(3P) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this one lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual, section 3P. Come sit with me, this is gonna be quick and cute.

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

Real talk first, no cap: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the details of Linux behavior. Or, plot twist, the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈

✨ NAME ✨

munlock — unlock a range of process address space 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <sys/mman.h>

int munlock(const void *addr, size_t len);

two args, both iconique, both required. 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Bestie, I'm not even gonna front with you: refer to mlock(). That's it. That's the whole description. This page is giving "go ask my sister, she knows". 😭

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

okay so here's the legal tea, and we do not skip it: ☕

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

tiny reminder: those URLs are verbatim from the page, so don't @ me if you gotta copy-paste them exactly. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

bye babes, mwah 💋 — this was brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, and the one and only MUNLOCK(3P) 👑