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-rw-r--r--man2/mmap.28
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index 7ca39ff5d6..f4b1e4b7fb 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -87,8 +87,12 @@ in the file (or other object) referred to by the file descriptor
.I offset
must be a multiple of the page size as returned by
.IR sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) .
-The file descriptor can be closed immediately without invalidating the
-mapping.
+.PP
+After the
+.BR mmap ()
+call has returned, the file descriptor,
+.IR fd ,
+can be closed immediately without invalidating the mapping.
.PP
The
.I prot