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39 .Dd September 10, 2002
43 .Nm makecontext , swapcontext
44 .Nd modify and exchange user thread contexts
52 .Fa "void (*func)(void)"
56 .Fn swapcontext "ucontext_t *oucp" "const ucontext_t *ucp"
61 modifies the user thread context pointed to by
63 which must have previously been initialized by a call to
65 and had a stack allocated for it.
66 The context is modified so that it will continue execution by invoking
68 with the arguments provided.
72 must be equal to the number of additional arguments provided to
74 and also equal to the number of arguments to
76 or else the behavior is undefined.
81 must be initialized before calling
83 and determines the action to take when
90 .Fn setcontext "ucp->uc_link"
91 is implicitly invoked.
96 saves the current thread context in
100 the currently active context.
105 otherwise \-1 is returned and the global variable
107 is set appropriately.
115 There is not enough stack space in
117 to complete the operation.