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mmap.2: Minor wording fixes 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-07-22 09:08:19 +02:00
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@ -266,15 +266,18 @@ Mark the mmaped region to be locked in the same way as
This implementation will try to populate (prefault) the whole range but
the mmap call doesn't fail with
.B ENOMEM
if this fails. Therefore major faults might happen later on. So the semantic
is not as strong as
if this fails.
Therefore major faults might happen later on.
So the semantic is not as strong as
.BR mlock (2).
One should use
.BR mmap (2)
plus
.BR mlock (2)
should be used when major faults are not acceptable after the initialization
of the mapping.
This flag is ignored in older kernels.
when major faults are not acceptable after the initialization of the mapping.
The
.BR MAP_LOCKED
flag is ignored in older kernels.
.\" If set, the mapped pages will not be swapped out.
.TP
.BR MAP_NONBLOCK " (since Linux 2.5.46)"