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diff --git a/man/man2/setup.2 b/man/man2/setup.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9fb5e8654 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/setup.2 @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" Modified by Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de> +.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:14:13 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> +.\" Modified 15 April 1995 by Michael Chastain <mec@shell.portal.com> +.\" Update calling parameters to Linux 1.2.4 values. +.\" Modified 10 June 1995 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> +.\" Modified 3 May 1996 by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de> +.\" Modified Wed Nov 6 04:05:28 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> +.\" Modified Sat Jan 29 01:08:23 2000 by aeb +.\" +.TH setup 2 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +setup \- setup devices and filesystems, mount root filesystem +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <unistd.h> +.P +.B [[deprecated]] int setup(void); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR setup () +is called once from within +.IR linux/init/main.c . +It calls initialization functions for devices and filesystems +configured into the kernel and then mounts the root filesystem. +.P +No user process may call +.BR setup (). +Any user process, even a process with superuser permission, +will receive +.BR EPERM . +.SH RETURN VALUE +.BR setup () +always returns \-1 for a user process. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EPERM +Always, for a user process. +.SH STANDARDS +Linux. +.SH VERSIONS +Removed in Linux 2.1.121. +.P +The calling sequence varied: at some times +.BR setup () +has had a single argument +.I "void\ *BIOS" +and at other times a single argument +.IR "int magic" . |