mmalloc/detach.c

   1 /* Finish access to a mmap'd malloc managed region.
   2    Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3
   4    Contributed by Fred Fish at Cygnus Support.   fnf@cygnus.com
   5
   6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   9 (at your option) any later version.
  10
  11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  14 GNU General Public License for more details.
  15
  16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  17 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  18 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  */
  19
  20
  21 #include <fcntl.h>
  22 #include "mmalloc.h"
  23
  24 /* Terminate access to a mmalloc managed region by unmapping all memory pages
  25    associated with the region, and closing the file descriptor if it is one
  26    that we opened.
  27
  28    Returns NULL on success.
  29
  30    Returns the malloc descriptor on failure, which can subsequently be used
  31    for further action, such as obtaining more information about the nature of
  32    the failure by examining the preserved errno value.
  33
  34    Note that the malloc descriptor that we are using is currently located in
  35    region we are about to unmap, so we first make a local copy of it on the
  36    stack and use the copy. */
  37
  38 PTR
  39 mmalloc_detach (md)
  40   void *md;
  41 {
  42   struct mdesc mtemp;
  43
  44   if (md != NULL)
  45     {
  46
  47       mtemp = *(struct mdesc *) md;
  48
  49       /* Now unmap all the pages associated with this region by asking for a
  50          negative increment equal to the current size of the region. */
  51
  52       if ((mtemp.morecore (&mtemp, mtemp.base - mtemp.top)) == NULL)
  53         {
  54           /* Update the original malloc descriptor with any changes */
  55           *(struct mdesc *) md = mtemp;
  56         }
  57       else
  58         {
  59           if (mtemp.flags & MMALLOC_DEVZERO)
  60             {
  61               (void) close (mtemp.fd);
  62             }
  63           md = NULL;
  64         }
  65     }
  66
  67   return (md);
  68 }
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  71