On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Jakub Wilk <jwilk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This sentence is in the "Conventional advice value" subsection, which > defines only MADV_NORMAL, MADV_RANDOM, MADV_SEQUENTIAL, MADV_WILLNEED, > and MADV_DONTNEED. > > MADV_WIPEONFORK is defined in the "Linux-specific advice values" > subsection, which already notes that "some of these operations change > the semantics of memory accesses". (Perhaps s/some/most/ would be better > wording.) Ah, thank you! Now that I look with that in mind, it makes sense. AGL