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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-10-02 06:56:50 +0300
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-10-02 06:56:50 +0300
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prctl.2: Clarify that PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL returns value as function result
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
-rw-r--r--man2/prctl.23
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index 435b18c969..c29c6de822 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -1063,7 +1063,8 @@ See
.BR capabilities (7).
.TP
.BR PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL " (since Linux 4.17)"
-Returns the state of the speculation misfeature specified in
+Return (as the function result)
+the state of the speculation misfeature specified in
.IR arg2 .
Currently, the only permitted value for this argument is
.BR PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS