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flock.2: Minor wording fix 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2017-10-03 15:28:30 +02:00
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@ -210,9 +210,12 @@ Instead, one could use
byte-range locking, which does work over NFS,
given a sufficiently recent version of
Linux and a server which supports locking.
.PP
Since Linux 2.6.12, NFS clients support
.BR flock ()
locks by emulating them as byte-range locks on the entire file.
locks by emulating them as
.BR fcntl (2)
byte-range locks on the entire file.
This means that
.BR fcntl (2)
and