Name

personality — set the process execution domain

Synopsis

#include <sys/personality.h>
int personality( unsigned long   persona);

DESCRIPTION

Linux supports different execution domains, or personalities, for each process. Among other things, execution domains tell Linux how to map signal numbers into signal actions. The execution domain system allows Linux to provide limited support for binaries compiled under other Unix-like operating systems.

This function will return the current personality() when persona equals 0xffffffff. Otherwise, it will make the execution domain referenced by persona the new execution domain of the calling process.

RETURN VALUE

On success, the previous persona is returned. On error, −1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

EINVAL

The kernel was unable to change the personality.

CONFORMING TO

personality() is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs intended to be portable.

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 2.79 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/.


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typo corrected, aeb, 950825
added layout change from joey, 960722
changed prototype, documented 0xffffffff, aeb, 030101
Modified 2004-11-03 patch from Martin Schulze <joeyinfodrom.org>