memtrap: add a bit of documentation for memtrap

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Lennart Poettering 2009-04-21 23:02:17 +02:00
parent 67efc76abc
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#include <pulsecore/macro.h>
/* This subsystem will trap SIGBUS on specific memory regions. The
* regions will be remapped to anonymous memory (i.e. writable NUL
* bytes) on SIGBUS, so that execution of the main program can
* continue though with memory having changed beneath its hands. With
* pa_memtrap_is_good() it is possible to query if a memory region is
* still 'good' i.e. no SIGBUS has happened yet for it.
*
* Intended usage is to handle memory mapped in which is controlled by
* other processes that might execute ftruncate() or when mapping in
* hardware resources that might get invalidated when unplugged. */
typedef struct pa_memtrap pa_memtrap;
pa_memtrap* pa_memtrap_add(const void *start, size_t size);