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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-02-25 13:21:20 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-02-25 13:21:20 +0100
commitad78d8c22487b63843de148524fdd1e8a25a4dfd (patch)
treef6b1e074a5987e7e390cca7d2b1d9157bd4ba695 /man2
parent28628d82666104195eaf4491eb626e3fcc9bb2c9 (diff)
process_madvise.2: Rename parameter, and use array syntax
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
-rw-r--r--man2/process_madvise.214
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man2/process_madvise.2 b/man2/process_madvise.2
index ed8739663..2d91924ca 100644
--- a/man2/process_madvise.2
+++ b/man2/process_madvise.2
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ Standard C library
.nf
.B #include <sys/mman.h>
.P
-.BI "ssize_t process_madvise(int " pidfd ", const struct iovec *" iovec ,
-.BI " size_t " vlen ", int " advice \
+.BI "ssize_t process_madvise(int " pidfd ", const struct iovec " iovec [. n ],
+.BI " size_t " n ", int " advice \
", unsigned int " flags );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ address ranges of another process or of the calling process.
It provides the advice for the address ranges described by
.I iovec
and
-.IR vlen .
+.IR n .
The goal of such advice is to improve system or application performance.
.P
The
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ points to an array of
structures, described in
.BR iovec (3type).
.P
-.I vlen
+.I n
specifies the number of elements in the array of
.I iovec
structures.
@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ argument is reserved for future use; currently, this argument must be
specified as 0.
.P
The
-.I vlen
+.I n
and
.I iovec
arguments are checked before applying any advice.
If
-.I vlen
+.I n
is too big, or
.I iovec
is invalid,
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ overflows a
value.
.TP
.B EINVAL
-.I vlen
+.I n
is too large.
.TP
.B ENOMEM