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prctl.2: Minor wording fix 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2020-04-21 14:01:01 +02:00
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@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ in the location pointed to by
.IR "(int\ *) arg2" .
.TP
.BR PR_SET_DUMPABLE " (since Linux 2.3.20)"
Set the state of the "dumpable" flag,
Set the state of the "dumpable" attribute,
which determines whether core dumps are produced for the calling process
upon delivery of a signal whose default behavior is to produce a core dump.
.IP
@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ for security reasons, this feature has been removed.
in
.BR proc (5).)
.IP
Normally, this flag is set to 1.
Normally, the "dumpable" attribue is set to 1.
However, it is reset to the current value contained in the file
.IR /proc/sys/fs/\:suid_dumpable
(which by default has the value 0),
@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ directory is affected as described in
.TP
.BR PR_GET_DUMPABLE " (since Linux 2.3.20)"
Return (as the function result) the current state of the calling
process's dumpable flag.
process's dumpable attribute.
.\" Since Linux 2.6.13, the dumpable flag can have the value 2,
.\" but in 2.6.13 PR_GET_DUMPABLE simply returns 1 if the dumpable
.\" flags has a nonzero value. This was fixed in 2.6.14.