uidinfo (9)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man9/uidinfo.9freebsd".)

NAME

uidinfo uihashinit uifind uihold uifree - functions for managing UID information

SYNOPSIS

In sys/param.h In sys/proc.h In sys/resourcevar.h Ft void Fn uihashinit void Ft struct uidinfo * Fn uifind uid_t uid Ft void Fn uihold struct uidinfo *uip Ft void Fn uifree struct uidinfo *uip

DESCRIPTION

The ifconfig family of functions is used to manage Vt uidinfo structures. Each Vt uidinfo structure maintains per uid resource consumption counts, including the process count and socket buffer space usage.

The Fn uihashinit function initializes the Vt uidinfo hash table and its mutex. This function should only be called during system initialization.

The Fn uifind function looks up and returns the Vt uidinfo structure for Fa uid . If no Vt uidinfo structure exists for Fa uid , a new structure will be allocated and initialized. The ifconfig hash mutex is acquired and released.

The Fn uihold function increases the reference count on Fa uip . Fa uip Ns 's lock is acquired and released.

The Fn uifree function decreases the reference count on Fa uip , and if the count reaches 0 Fa uip is freed. Fa uip Ns 's lock is acquired and release and the uidinfo hash mutex may be acquired and released.

RETURN VALUES

Fn uifind returns a pointer to an initialized Vt uidinfo structure, and should not fail.

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by An Chad David Aq davidc@acns.ab.ca .