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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ permits fine control when synchronizing the open file referred to by the
file descriptor
.I fd
with disk.
-
+.PP
.I offset
is the starting byte of the file range to be synchronized.
.I nbytes
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Synchronization is in units of the system page size:
is rounded down to a page boundary;
.I (offset+nbytes-1)
is rounded up to a page boundary.
-
+.PP
The
.I flags
bit-mask argument can include any of the following values:
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ will detect any
I/O errors or
.B ENOSPC
conditions and will return these to the caller.
-
+.PP
Useful combinations of the
.I flags
bits are:
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ system call that orders the arguments suitably:
.PP
The behavior of this system call is otherwise exactly the same as
.BR sync_file_range ().
-
+.PP
A system call with this signature first appeared on the ARM architecture
in Linux 2.6.20, with the name
.BR arm_sync_file_range ().