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mmap.2: Small improvement to description of MAP_SHARED 

See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6887

Reported-by: Siward de Groot <siward@wanadoo.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2016-08-13 07:15:00 +12:00
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@ -118,8 +118,9 @@ of the following values in
.TP
.B MAP_SHARED
Share this mapping.
Updates to the mapping are visible to other processes that map this file,
and are carried through to the underlying file.
Updates to the mapping are visible to other processes mapping the same region,
and (in the case of file-backed mappings)
are carried through to the underlying file.
(To precisely control when updates are carried through
to the underlying file requires the use of
.BR msync (2).)