(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.51.

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

diff --git a/original/man2/sync_file_range.2 b/original/man2/sync_file_range.2
index c55184a..18a4087 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/sync_file_range.2
+++ b/original/man2/sync_file_range.2
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\"     Andrew Morton's comments in fs/sync.c
 .\" 2010-10-09, mtk, Document sync_file_range2()
 .\"
-.TH SYNC_FILE_RANGE 2 2010-10-09 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SYNC_FILE_RANGE 2 2013-04-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 sync_file_range \- sync a file segment with disk
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -186,11 +186,15 @@ need 64-bit arguments to be aligned in a suitable pair of registers.
 .\" See kernel commit edd5cd4a9424f22b0fa08bef5e299d41befd5622
 On such architectures, the call signature of
 .BR sync_file_range ()
-is flawed, since it forces a register to be wasted as padding between the
+shown in the SYNOPSIS would force
+a register to be wasted as padding between the
 .I fd
 and
 .I offset
 arguments.
+(See
+.BR syscall (2)
+for details.)
 Therefore, these architectures define a different
 system call that orders the arguments suitably:
 .PP