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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 b/lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 index fc7176506baf..25068b480468 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)madvise.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 -.\" $Id$ +.\" $Id: madvise.2,v 1.10 1997/02/22 15:04:03 peter Exp $ .\" .Dd Jul 19, 1996 .Dt MADVISE 2 @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ into the calling process. Allows the VM system to decrease the in-memory priority of pages in the specified range. Additionally future references to this address range will incur a page fault. -.Dv MADV_FREE -gives the VM system the freedom to free pages, +.It Dv MADV_FREE +Gives the VM system the freedom to free pages, and tells the system that information in the specified page range is no longer important. This is an efficient way of allowing .Xr malloc 3 |