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diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2 index 5b2895739..5782574ee 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 2023-02-05 "Linux man-pages 6.03" +.TH madvise 2 2023-04-03 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" .SH NAME madvise \- give advice about use of memory .SH LIBRARY @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ that are known not to be useful in a core dump. The effect of .B MADV_DONTDUMP takes precedence over the bit mask that is set via the -.I /proc/[pid]/coredump_filter +.IR /proc/ pid /coredump_filter file (see .BR core (5)). .TP @@ -838,15 +838,6 @@ be created using the flag described elsewhere in this page) was encountered. .SH VERSIONS -Since Linux 3.18, -.\" commit d3ac21cacc24790eb45d735769f35753f5b56ceb -support for this system call is optional, -depending on the setting of the -.B CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS -configuration option. -.SH STANDARDS -.BR madvise () -is not specified by any standards. Versions of this system call, implementing a wide variety of .I advice values, exist on many other implementations. @@ -865,8 +856,7 @@ with constants and .BR POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED , and so on, with behavior close to the similarly named flags listed above. -.SH NOTES -.SS Linux notes +.SS Linux The Linux implementation requires that the address .I addr be page-aligned, and allows @@ -883,10 +873,17 @@ from the system call, as it should). will return zero iff .I advice is supported by the kernel and can be relied on to probe for support. -.\" .SH HISTORY -.\" The -.\" .BR madvise () -.\" function first appeared in 4.4BSD. +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.SH HISTORY +First appeared in 4.4BSD. +.PP +Since Linux 3.18, +.\" commit d3ac21cacc24790eb45d735769f35753f5b56ceb +support for this system call is optional, +depending on the setting of the +.B CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS +configuration option. .SH SEE ALSO .BR getrlimit (2), .BR memfd_secret (2), |