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diff --git a/man2/personality.2 b/man2/personality.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..86f5c903c --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/personality.2 @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1995, Thomas K. Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu> +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.\" Created Sat Aug 21 1995 Thomas K. Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu> +.\" +.\" typo corrected, aeb, 950825 +.\" added layout change from joey, 960722 +.\" changed prototype, documented 0xffffffff, aeb, 030101 +.\" +.TH PERSONALITY 2 2003-01-01 "Linux 2.0" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +personality \- set the process execution domain +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BI "long personality(unsigned long " persona ); +.SH DESCRIPTION +Linux supports different execution domains, or personalities, for each +process. Among other things, execution domains tell Linux how to map +signal numbers into signal actions. The execution domain system allows +Linux to provide limited support for binaries compiled under other +Unix-like operating systems. + +This function will return the current +.B personality +when +.I persona +equals 0xffffffff. Otherwise, it will make the execution domain +referenced by +.I persona +the new execution domain of the current process. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +On success, the previous +.I persona +is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set appropriately. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EINVAL +The kernel was unable to change the personality. +.PP +.SH FILES +.I /usr/include/linux/personality.h +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +.B personality +is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs intended to be portable. |