Hello, This patch applies to man-pages 3.33. setbuf.3 claims that stdio buffers are allocated by malloc(). Strangely this is not the case; they are allocated using mmap() by way of the macro ALLOC_BUF() in glibc-2.13.90/libio/libioP.h:803. Best, John --- --- a/man3/setbuf.3 +++ b/man3/setbuf.3 @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ may be used to force the block out early. .BR fclose (3).) Normally all files are block buffered. When the first I/O operation occurs on a file, -.BR malloc (3) +.BR mmap (2) is called, and a buffer is obtained. If a stream refers to a terminal (as .I stdout -- 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
