setup

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Section: 2 (Appels système)

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NAME

setup - setup devices and file systems, mount root file system

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int setup(void);

DESCRIPTION

setup() is called once from within linux/init/main.c. It calls initialization functions for devices and file systems configured into the kernel and then mounts the root file system.

No user process may call setup(). Any user process, even a process with superuser permission, will receive EPERM.

RETURN VALUE

setup() always returns -1 for a user process.

ERRORS

EPERM
Always, for a user process.

CONFORMING TO

This function is Linux-specific, and should not be used in programs intended to be portable, or indeed in any programs at all. Since Linux 2.1.121, no such function exists anymore. The calling sequence varied: it has had a single parameter void *BIOS and at other times a single parameter int magic.

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 2.78 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.