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-rw-r--r--man2/mmap.27
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index 3f339457b..eae5d8d4e 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -198,11 +198,11 @@ The
argument should be zero.
.\" See the pgoff overflow check in do_mmap().
.\" See the offset check in sys_mmap in arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c.
-The use of
+Support for
.B MAP_ANONYMOUS
in conjunction with
.B MAP_SHARED
-is supported on Linux only since kernel 2.4.
+was added in Linux 2.4.
.TP
.B MAP_DENYWRITE
This flag is ignored.
@@ -388,8 +388,9 @@ The
call doesn't fail if the mapping cannot be populated (for example, due
to limitations on the number of mapped huge pages when using
.BR MAP_HUGETLB ).
+Support for
.B MAP_POPULATE
-is supported for private mappings only since Linux 2.6.23.
+in conjunction with private mappings was added in Linux 2.6.23.
.TP
.BR MAP_STACK " (since Linux 2.6.27)"
Allocate the mapping at an address suitable for a process