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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-12-12 07:21:41 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-12-12 07:21:41 +0100
commit2da72a435c7bd064973168452e3dfbce677df1ca (patch)
treeec67e6c6ffce4a188297426181e1fd48aa4d38cd
parent0e2c6b8c1bc53805a87c7581bd9a2cd0455dc7a3 (diff)
downloadman-pages-2da72a435c7bd064973168452e3dfbce677df1ca.tar.gz
prctl.2: Minor tweaks to Eugene Syromyatnikov's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/prctl.214
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index a87eed49cf..98094fc554 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -1118,11 +1118,17 @@ Pass
\fBPR_UNALIGN_NOPRINT\fP to silently fix up unaligned user accesses,
or \fBPR_UNALIGN_SIGBUS\fP to generate
.B SIGBUS
-on unaligned user access. Alpha also supports an additional flag with the value
-of 4 and no corresponding named constant, which instructs kernel to not fix up
+on unaligned user access.
+Alpha also supports an additional flag with the value
+of 4 and no corresponding named constant,
+which instructs kernel to not fix up
unaligned accesses (it is analogous to providing the
-.BR UAC_NOFIX " flag in " SSI_NVPAIRS " operation of " setsysinfo
-syscall on Tru64).
+.BR UAC_NOFIX
+flag in
+.BR SSI_NVPAIRS
+operation of the
+.BR setsysinfo ()
+system call on Tru64).
.TP
.B PR_GET_UNALIGN
(see