From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: Possible typo in madvise(2) Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 20:18:43 +0200 Message-ID: <533B0303.2000601@gmail.com> References: <5334B14B.7070409@umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5334B14B.7070409-63aXycvo3TyHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Alex Roper Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 03/28/2014 12:16 AM, Alex Roper wrote: > Version: Current git repo > > The first paragraph of DESCRIPTION states that madvise does not change > the semantics of an application except in the case of MADV_DONTNEED, > which I believe should read MADV_DONTFORK. Alex, MADV_DONTNEED does change the semantics. But, could you say more about wht you think MADV_DONTFORK should have been written here instead? (Perhaps some fix is needed to the page.) Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html