SWAPCONTEXT

Section: Linux 2.6 Programmer's Guide (2)
Updated: 2004-March-12
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NAME

swapcontext - Swap out old context with new context  

SYNOPSIS

int sys_swapcontext (struct ucontext *old_ctx, struct ucontext *new_ctx, int r5, int r6, int r7, int r8, struct pt_regs *regs);
 

DESCRIPTION

swapcontext swaps out context old_ctx with new context new_ctx. The int r# values have no place in the system call functionality. The regs value indicates the current user register values from the user stack.  

RETURN VALUE

swapcontext returns 0 on success; otherwise, swapcontext returns one of the errors listed in the "Errors" section.  

ERRORS

-EFAULT
swapcontext could not verify that the memory area pointed to by old_ctx or new_ctx was accessible for the operation.
-SIGSEGV
A fault occurred when the context was being copied into the kernel's image of the user's registers. The should only occur in an out-of-memory situation.
 

SEE ALSO

getcontext(2), sigaction(2), sigaltstack(2), sigprocmask(2)  

AUTHOR

Niki Rahimi


 

Index

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RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR