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41 .Nd synchronize a mapped region
48 .Fn msync "void *addr" "size_t len" "int flags"
53 writes any modified pages back to the filesystem and updates
54 the file modification time.
57 is 0, all modified pages within the region containing
62 is non-zero, only those pages containing
66 succeeding locations will be examined.
69 argument may be specified as follows:
71 MS_ASYNC Return immediately
72 MS_SYNC Perform synchronous writes
73 MS_INVALIDATE Invalidate all cached data
83 is not a multiple of the hardware page size.
86 is too large or negative.
89 was both MS_ASYNC and MS_INVALIDATE.
90 Only one of these flags is allowed.
92 An I/O error occurred while writing to the file system.
102 function first appeared in