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Diffstat (limited to 'man/man3/posix_madvise.3')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/posix_madvise.3 b/man/man3/posix_madvise.3 index acaeda2b8d..d8c97276c4 100644 --- a/man/man3/posix_madvise.3 +++ b/man/man3/posix_madvise.3 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Standard C library .nf .B #include <sys/mman.h> .P -.BI "int posix_madvise(void " addr [. len "], size_t " len ", int " advice ); +.BI "int posix_madvise(void " addr [. size "], size_t " size ", int " advice ); .fi .P .RS -4 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ function allows an application to advise the system about its expected patterns of usage of memory in the address range starting at .I addr and continuing for -.I len +.I size bytes. The system is free to use this advice in order to improve the performance of memory accesses (or to ignore the advice altogether), but calling @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ On failure, it returns a positive error number. .B EINVAL .I addr is not a multiple of the system page size or -.I len +.I size is negative. .TP .B EINVAL @@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ Addresses in the specified range are partially or completely outside the caller's address space. .SH VERSIONS POSIX.1 permits an implementation to generate an error if -.I len +.I size is 0. On Linux, specifying -.I len +.I size as 0 is permitted (as a successful no-op). .P In glibc, this function is implemented using |