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diff --git a/man2/setup.2 b/man2/setup.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..12578ae46 --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/setup.2 @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source. +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992 +.\" +.\" 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 +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date.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. +.\" +.\" 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 1996-05-03 "Linux 1.2.9" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +setup \- setup devices and file systems, mount root file system +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B #include <unistd.h> +.sp +.B _syscall0(int, setup); +.sp +.B int setup(void); +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B setup +is called once from within +.IR linux/init/main.c . +It calls initialization functions for devices and file systems +configured into the kernel and then mounts the root file system. +.PP +No user process may call +.BR setup . +Any user process, even a process with super-user permission, +will receive +.BR EPERM . +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +.B setup +always returns \-1 for a user process. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EPERM +Always, for a user process. +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +This function is Linux specific, and should not be used in programs +intended to be portable, or indeed in any programs at all. +Since Linux 2.1.121, no such function exists anymore. +The calling sequence varied: it has had a single parameter +.I "void * BIOS" +and at other times a single parameter +.IR "int magic" . |