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+.\" As part of the numactl() package, the /proc/PID/numa_maps
+.\" documentation was in a numa_maps.5 page; this link
+.\" ensures that "man 5 numa_maps" still works.
+.\" Eventually, we may want to remove it -- mtk, Aug 2008
+.so man7/numa.7