Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@xxxxxxxxx> --- man2/posix_fadvise.2 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/posix_fadvise.2 b/man2/posix_fadvise.2 index 0077a86..eed5d9c 100644 --- a/man2/posix_fadvise.2 +++ b/man2/posix_fadvise.2 @@ -192,7 +192,9 @@ The name of the wrapper function in the C library is The underlying system call is called .BR fadvise64 () (or, on some architectures, -.BR fadvise64_64 ()). +.BR fadvise64_64 ()); the difference between the two is that former syscall +assumes that the type of the \fIlen\fP argument is \fBsize_t\fP, +while the latter expects \fBloff_t\fP there. .SS Architecture-specific variants Some architectures require 64-bit arguments to be aligned in a suitable pair of registers (see -- 2.1.4
