More clean-up of ERRORS after further communication with Gordon Jin.

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Michael Kerrisk 2005-04-06 12:59:19 +00:00
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.\" Slightly adapted, following comments by Hugh Dickins, aeb, 2001-06-04.
.\" Modified, 20 May 2003, Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
.\" Modified, 30 Apr 2004, Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
.\" 2005-04-05 mtk, Cleaned up description of EINVAL error,
.\" 2005-04-05 mtk, Fixed error descriptions
.\" after message from <gordon.jin@intel.com>
.\"
.TH MINCORE 2 2004-04-30 "Linux 2.6.5" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.TP
.B EINVAL
.I start
is not a multiple of the page size, or
is not a multiple of the page size.
.TP
.B ENOMEM
.I len
is greater than
.RI ( TASK_SIZE " - " start ).
(The latter could occur if a negative value is specified for
(This could occur if a negative value is specified for
.IR len ,
since that value will be interpreted as a large unsigned integer.)
since that value will be interpreted as a large
unsigned integer.)
In Linux 2.6.11 and earlier, the error
.B EINVAL
was returned for this condition.
.TP
.B ENOMEM
.I address