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authorWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2025-12-03 04:40:47 +0000
committerWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2025-12-03 04:40:47 +0000
commit618347747494f0c0842edbdfe29bacf533b10d0f (patch)
treeaa9520e5c1622800559e97e78761de6f1a701143
parent0e60cb8c6a4e9cf943b7360cbd9e9a390f545a10 (diff)
kqueue(9): document f_copy
f_copy controls whether and how a knote is inherited by the child process. Sponsored by: Netflix Reviewed by: kib Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53845
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/kqueue.914
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/kqueue.9 b/share/man/man9/kqueue.9
index 8214d7c01673..bc73530226f0 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/kqueue.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/kqueue.9
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd December 18, 2023
+.Dd December 2, 2025
.Dt KQUEUE 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -197,6 +197,18 @@ function of the
that the
.Va knote
was added to.
+.It Va f_copy
+The
+.Va f_copy
+function is called to copy notes when the process forks.
+When
+.Dv NULL ,
+the current node is not duplicated to the child process.
+Filter might set
+.Dv f_copy
+to
+.Fn knote_triv_copy
+if there is no additional handling required, besides shallow copying of the knote itself.
.El
.Pp
The function