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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:40:13 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r184226 - head/lib/libc/sys
Message-ID:  <200810241440.m9OEeDmG092227@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: alc
Date: Fri Oct 24 14:40:13 2008
New Revision: 184226
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184226

Log:
  Finish what revision 1.40 started.  Revision 1.40 removed a false statement
  from the description but not the errors section.  This revision removes it
  from the errors statement.
  
  Add a statement about the non-portability of non-page-aligned offsets.

Modified:
  head/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2

Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2	Fri Oct 24 13:23:54 2008	(r184225)
+++ head/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2	Fri Oct 24 14:40:13 2008	(r184226)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)mmap.2	8.4 (Berkeley) 5/11/95
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd April 21, 2006
+.Dd October 24, 2008
 .Dt MMAP 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -252,6 +252,11 @@ In the future we may define an additiona
 in which
 the file descriptor argument specifies a file or device to which swapping
 should be done.
+.Sh NOTES
+Although this implementation does not impose any alignment restrictions on
+the
+.Fa offset
+argument, a portable program must only use page-aligned values.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 Upon successful completion,
 .Fn mmap
@@ -307,13 +312,6 @@ was negative.
 was specified and the
 .Fa fd
 argument was not -1.
-The
-.Fa offset
-argument
-was not page-aligned.
-(See
-.Sx BUGS
-below.)
 .It Bq Er ENODEV
 .Dv MAP_ANON
 has not been specified and



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