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diff --git a/man2/cacheflush.2 b/man2/cacheflush.2 index 6d44e8d6a8..aa2ea6e454 100644 --- a/man2/cacheflush.2 +++ b/man2/cacheflush.2 @@ -61,20 +61,13 @@ is not one of or .B BCACHE (but see BUGS). -.SH STANDARDS -Historically, this system call was available on all MIPS UNIX variants -including RISC/os, IRIX, Ultrix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD -(and also on some non-UNIX MIPS operating systems), so that -the existence of this call in MIPS operating systems is a de-facto -standard. -.SS Caveat +.SH VERSIONS .BR cacheflush () should not be used in programs intended to be portable. On Linux, this call first appeared on the MIPS architecture, but nowadays, Linux provides a .BR cacheflush () system call on some other architectures, but with different arguments. -.SH NOTES .SS Architecture-specific variants glibc provides a wrapper for this system call, with the prototype shown in SYNOPSIS, @@ -127,6 +120,12 @@ the prototype for this built-in function uses instead of .I void * for the parameters. +.SH STANDARDS +Historically, this system call was available on all MIPS UNIX variants +including RISC/os, IRIX, Ultrix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD +(and also on some non-UNIX MIPS operating systems), so that +the existence of this call in MIPS operating systems is a de-facto +standard. .SH BUGS Linux kernels older than Linux 2.6.11 ignore the .I addr |