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diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2 index 5782574..c30ec4c 100644 --- a/man2/madvise.2 +++ b/man2/madvise.2 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ .\" 2011-09-18, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com> .\" Document MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE .\" -.TH madvise 2 2023-04-03 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH madvise 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME madvise \- give advice about use of memory .SH LIBRARY @@ -21,15 +21,15 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <sys/mman.h> -.PP +.P .BI "int madvise(void " addr [. length "], size_t " length ", int " advice ); .fi -.PP +.P .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE -.PP +.P .BR madvise (): .nf Since glibc 2.19: @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ The value of is rounded up to a multiple of page size. In most cases, the goal of such advice is to improve system or application performance. -.PP +.P Initially, the system call supported a set of "conventional" .I advice values, which are also available on several other implementations. @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ values listed here have analogs in the POSIX-specified .BR posix_madvise (3) function, and the values have the same meanings, with the exception of .BR MADV_DONTNEED . -.PP +.P The advice is indicated in the .I advice argument, which is one of the following: @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ Other implementations typically implement at least the flags listed above under .IR "Conventional advice flags" , albeit with some variation in semantics. -.PP +.P POSIX.1-2001 describes .BR posix_madvise (3) with constants @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ that are not mapped, the Linux version of ignores them and applies the call to the rest (but returns .B ENOMEM from the system call, as it should). -.PP +.P .I madvise(0,\ 0,\ advice) will return zero iff .I advice @@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ is supported by the kernel and can be relied on to probe for support. None. .SH HISTORY First appeared in 4.4BSD. -.PP +.P Since Linux 3.18, .\" commit d3ac21cacc24790eb45d735769f35753f5b56ceb support for this system call is optional, |