Hi, Jakub and Branden! On 11/12/21 11:39, Jakub Wilk wrote: > '" type of behavior:' was incorrectly formatted in bold. Thanks for the report! > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > man2/mmap.2 | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2 > index 96b7444b0..f6e406ed5 100644 > --- a/man2/mmap.2 > +++ b/man2/mmap.2 > @@ -289,8 +289,7 @@ Note that older kernels which do not recognize the > .BR MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE > flag will typically (upon detecting a collision with a preexisting mapping) > fall back to a "non-\c > -.B MAP_FIXED\c > -" type of behavior: Branden, why is that? Is a leading '"' special here? > +.BR MAP_FIXED "\(dq type of behavior:" I'll apply a slightly simpler patch (removing \c): diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2 index 30756f078..d0291be8e 100644 --- a/man2/mmap.2 +++ b/man2/mmap.2 @@ -271,9 +271,9 @@ one thread will succeed; all others will report failure. Note that older kernels which do not recognize the .BR MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag will typically (upon detecting a collision with a preexisting mapping) -fall back to a "non-\c -.B MAP_FIXED\c -" type of behavior: +fall back to a +.RB \(dqnon- MAP_FIXED \(dq +type of behavior: they will return an address that is different from the requested address. Therefore, backward-compatible software should check the returned address against the requested address. > they will return an address that is different from the requested address. > Therefore, backward-compatible software > should check the returned address against the requested address. -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
