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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2025-03-25 01:45:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2025-03-25 01:45:51 +0100 |
| commit | 04ac8a314716e162a8503a3256a7ede3062d402f (patch) | |
| tree | 6902a08da612faf0648f3d52e1f7913920d063f6 | |
| parent | 2b2519c7722166dbe4313da6ec048d137ea42ba7 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-04ac8a314716e162a8503a3256a7ede3062d402f.tar.gz | |
man/man2/posix_fadvise.2: Consistency fix (len => size)
Fixes: 18e7c4597c4e (2024-11-17; "man/: Terminology consistency reforms (n, size, length)")
Closes: <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219921>
Reported-by: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man2/posix_fadvise.2 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/man2/posix_fadvise.2 b/man/man2/posix_fadvise.2 index c7a42baa95..0c7209a5dc 100644 --- a/man/man2/posix_fadvise.2 +++ b/man/man2/posix_fadvise.2 @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ file data in a specific pattern in the future, thus allowing the kernel to perform appropriate optimizations. .P The \fIadvice\fP applies to a (not necessarily existent) region starting -at \fIoffset\fP and extending for \fIlen\fP bytes (or until the end of -the file if \fIlen\fP is 0) within the file referred to by \fIfd\fP. +at \fIoffset\fP and extending for \fIsize\fP bytes (or until the end of +the file if \fIsize\fP is 0) within the file referred to by \fIfd\fP. The \fIadvice\fP is not binding; it merely constitutes an expectation on behalf of the application. @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ The underlying system call is called (or, on some architectures, .BR fadvise64_64 ()); the difference between the two is that the former system call -assumes that the type of the \fIlen\fP argument is \fIsize_t\fP, +assumes that the type of the \fIsize\fP argument is \fIsize_t\fP, while the latter expects \fIloff_t\fP there. .SS Architecture-specific variants Some architectures require |