swapcontext man page on CentOS

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SWAPCONTEXT(2)		 Linux 2.6 Programmer's Guide		SWAPCONTEXT(2)

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 val‐
       ue 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 ker‐
	      nel'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

Linux 2.6			 2004-March-12			SWAPCONTEXT(2)

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