Re: [PATCH 01/11] man2/shmget.2: fix limit units suffix from SI to IEC

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Hi Brian,

The subject is not correct, IMO.  The SI also defines the Ki, Mi, ... prefixes for binary multipliers.
Also, they are prefixes, not suffixes.

Cheers,

Alex

On 2/7/23 21:11, Brian Inglis wrote:
> ---
>  man2/shmget.2 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/shmget.2 b/man2/shmget.2
> index cdb2d3bee4b5..4bc18bedf3a9 100644
> --- a/man2/shmget.2
> +++ b/man2/shmget.2
> @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ for a discussion of why this default value (rather than
>  is used.
>  .IP
>  From Linux 2.2 up to Linux 3.15, the default value of
> -this limit was 0x2000000 (32\ MB).
> +this limit was 0x2000000 (32\ MiB).
>  .IP
>  Because it is not possible to map just part of a shared memory segment,
>  the amount of virtual memory places another limit on the maximum size of a

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