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diff --git a/man7/svipc.7 b/man7/svipc.7 index 44f81113a1..98a9ea995d 100644 --- a/man7/svipc.7 +++ b/man7/svipc.7 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" .\" FIXME There is now duplication of some of the information .\" below in semctl.2, msgctl.2, and shmctl.2 -- MTK, Nov 04 -.TH SVIPC 7 1993-11-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH SVIPC 7 2009-01-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME svipc \- System V interprocess communication mechanisms .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ svipc \- System V interprocess communication mechanisms .fi .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page refers to the Linux implementation of the System V -interprocess communication mechanisms: +interprocess communication (IPC) mechanisms: message queues, semaphore sets, and shared memory segments. In the following, the word .I resource @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ means an instantiation of one among such mechanisms. For each resource, the system uses a common structure of type .I "struct ipc_perm" to store information needed in determining permissions to perform an -ipc operation. +IPC operation. The .I ipc_perm structure, defined by the @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ The member of the .I ipc_perm structure defines, with its lower 9 bits, the access permissions to the -resource for a process executing an ipc system call. +resource for a process executing an IPC system call. The permissions are interpreted as follows: .sp .nf |