Andi, On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > This change will give less information to the reader than the patch. It doesn't >> > seem like a improvement to me. >> >> It gives less information than your patch, because your patch repeated >> information that was already in the page. > > The correct prototype for the 5 argument option was and is still missing. > Text is no replacement for a correct prototype. What I want to avoid is cluttering the page with multiple prototypes. (If we went that way, then pages like fcntl(2) could get rather messy.) But, to try to alleviate your concern, I modified the patch somewhat. Hopefully, this will satisfy you. Cheers, Michael --- a/man2/mremap.2 +++ b/man2/mremap.2 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ mremap \- remap a virtual memory address .B #include <sys/mman.h> .sp .BI "void *mremap(void *" old_address ", size_t " old_size , -.BI " size_t " new_size ", int " flags ); +.BI " size_t " new_size ", int " flags ", ... /* void *" new_address " */);" .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .BR mremap () @@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ aligned. virtual memory block. \fInew_size\fP is the requested size of the virtual memory block after the resize. +An optional fifth argument, +.IR new_address , +may be provided; see the description of +.B MREMAP_FIXED +below. In Linux the memory is divided into pages. A user process has (one or) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
