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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-09-04 16:52:08 +1200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-09-04 16:52:08 +1200 |
| commit | 5e43063bdd4389d0c9163187ff1d6a277d3721a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 77cd7ecdeab98b74173f15b3b5a7a39b6e204422 | |
| parent | dae86017d71750feee456b9c845bd15a98722caf (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-5e43063bdd4389d0c9163187ff1d6a277d3721a4.tar.gz | |
readv.2: Clarify that RWF_DSYNC and RWF_SYNC apply only to data being written
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/readv.2 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/readv.2 b/man2/readv.2 index 3c987847e6..2f04ba7804 100644 --- a/man2/readv.2 +++ b/man2/readv.2 @@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ Provide a per-write equivalent of the .BR open (2) flag. This flag is meaningful only for -.BR pwritev2 (). +.BR pwritev2 (), +and its effect applies only to the data range written by the system call. .\" commit e864f39569f4092c2b2bc72c773b6e486c7e3bd9 .TP .BR RWF_HIPRI " (since Linux 4.6)" @@ -229,7 +230,8 @@ Provide a per-write equivalent of the .BR open (2) flag. This flag is meaningful only for -.BR pwritev2 (). +.BR pwritev2 (), +and its effect applies only to the data range written by the system call. .\" commit e864f39569f4092c2b2bc72c773b6e486c7e3bd9 .SH RETURN VALUE On success, |