And drop "current implementation" (wording still literal from Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst). Of course this describes the current implementation. Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man5/proc_pid_io.5 | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/proc_pid_io.5 b/man5/proc_pid_io.5 index 4d97bd95f..181717192 100644 --- a/man5/proc_pid_io.5 +++ b/man5/proc_pid_io.5 @@ -82,11 +82,10 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION .RE .IP .IR Note : -In the current implementation, things are a bit racy on 32-bit systems: -if process A reads process B's -.IR /proc/ pid /io -while process B is updating one of these 64-bit counters, -process A could see an intermediate result. +these counters are not atomic: +on systems where 64-bit integer operations may tear, +a counter could be updated simultaneously with a read, +yielding an incorrect intermediate value. .IP Permission to access this file is governed by .BR ptrace (2) -- 2.39.2
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