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madvise.2: Explicitly list the five flags provided by posix_fadvise() 

Over time, bit rot has afflicted this page. Since the original
text was written many new Linux-specific flags have been added.
So, now it's better to explicitly list the flags that
correspond to the POSIX analog of madvise().

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -345,8 +345,11 @@ POSIX.1-2001 describes
with constants
.BR POSIX_MADV_NORMAL ,
.BR POSIX_MADV_RANDOM ,
and so on,
with a behavior close to that described here.
.BR POSIX_MADV_SEQUENTIAL ,
.BR POSIX_MADV_WILLNEED ,
and
.BR POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED ,
and so on, with a behavior close to the similarly named flags listed above.
There is a similar
.BR posix_fadvise (2)
for file access.