Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards.

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Michael Kerrisk 2005-09-14 13:51:30 +00:00
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@ -88,6 +88,20 @@ and
.I size
will be placed.
The values specified in
.I start
and
.I size
should be multiples of the system page size.
If they are not, then the kernel rounds
.I both
values
.I down
to the nearest multiple of the page size.
.\" This rounding is weird, and not consistent with the treatment of
.\" the analogous arguments for munmap()/mprotect() and for mlock().
.\" MTK, 14 Sep 2005
The
.I prot
argument must be specified as 0.