(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.63

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / mprotect.2

diff --git a/original/man2/mprotect.2 b/original/man2/mprotect.2
index b1b3bd5..f8f8fba 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/mprotect.2
+++ b/original/man2/mprotect.2
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\" -*- nroff -*-
 .\" Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\" and Copyright (C) 1995 Michael Shields <shields@tembel.org>.
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and author of this work.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" Modified 1996-10-22 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
 .\" Modified 1997-05-31 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
@@ -28,15 +29,20 @@
 .\" Modified 2004-08-16 by Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
 .\" 2007-06-02, mtk: Fairly substantial rewrites and additions, and
 .\" a much improved example program.
+.\" FIXME The following protection flags need documenting:
+.\"         PROT_SEM
+.\"         PROT_GROWSDOWN
+.\"         PROT_GROWSUP
+.\"         PROT_SAO (PowerPC)
 .\"
-.TH MPROTECT 2 2011-09-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MPROTECT 2 2014-01-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 mprotect \- set protection on a region of memory
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .B #include <sys/mman.h>
 .sp
-.BI "int mprotect(const void *" addr ", size_t " len ", int " prot );
+.BI "int mprotect(void *" addr ", size_t " len ", int " prot );
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR mprotect ()
@@ -69,7 +75,7 @@ The memory can be modified.
 The memory can be executed.
 .\" FIXME
 .\" Document PROT_GROWSUP and PROT_GROWSDOWN
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 On success,
 .BR mprotect ()
 returns zero.
@@ -104,7 +110,7 @@ or specify one or more pages that are not mapped.
 (Before kernel 2.4.19, the error
 .BR EFAULT
 was incorrectly produced for these cases.)
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
 .\" SVr4 defines an additional error
 .\" code EAGAIN. The SVr4 error conditions don't map neatly onto Linux's.
@@ -134,7 +140,7 @@ implies
 POSIX.1-2001 says that an implementation may permit access
 other than that specified in
 .IR prot ,
-but at a minimum can only allow write access if
+but at a minimum can allow write access only if
 .B PROT_WRITE
 has been set, and must not allow any access if
 .B PROT_NONE
@@ -170,7 +176,7 @@ Got SIGSEGV at address: 0x804e000
 #define handle_error(msg) \\
     do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)
 
-char *buffer;
+static char *buffer;
 
 static void
 handler(int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *unused)
@@ -217,6 +223,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }
 .fi
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR mmap (2),
 .BR sysconf (3)