In SVID 3 (or perhaps earlier)
the type of the \fIshmaddr\fP argument was changed from
-.I "char *"
+.I "char\ *"
into
-.IR "const void *" ,
+.IR "const void\ *" ,
and the returned type of
.BR shmat ()
from
-.I "char *"
+.I "char\ *"
into
-.IR "void *" .
+.IR "void\ *" .
(Linux libc4 and libc5 have the
-.I "char *"
+.I "char\ *"
prototypes; glibc2 has
-.IR "void *" .)
+.IR "void\ *" .)
.SH NOTES
Using
.BR shmat ()
.BR capabilities (7),
.BR shm_overview (7),
.BR svipc (7)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.