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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 2019 01:21:11 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r354576 - head/share/man/man9
Message-ID:  <201911100121.xAA1LBat075394@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: rmacklem
Date: Sun Nov 10 01:21:10 2019
New Revision: 354576
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/354576

Log:
  Update the VOP_COPY_FILE_RANGE man page to reflect the semantic change
  made by r354574.
  
  This is a content change.

Modified:
  head/share/man/man9/VOP_COPY_FILE_RANGE.9

Modified: head/share/man/man9/VOP_COPY_FILE_RANGE.9
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man9/VOP_COPY_FILE_RANGE.9	Sun Nov 10 01:13:41 2019	(r354575)
+++ head/share/man/man9/VOP_COPY_FILE_RANGE.9	Sun Nov 10 01:21:10 2019	(r354576)
@@ -25,12 +25,13 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd November 8, 2019
+.Dd November 9, 2019
 .Dt VOP_COPY_FILE_RANGE 9
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm VOP_COPY_FILE_RANGE
-.Nd copy a byte range from one regular file to another within a file system
+.Nd copy a byte range from one file to another or within one file
+in a single file system
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .In sys/param.h
 .In sys/vnode.h
@@ -46,8 +47,17 @@
 .Fa "struct ucred *outcred"
 .Fa "struct thread *fsize_td"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-This entry point copies a byte range from one regular file to another within a
-file system.
+This entry point copies a byte range from one regular file to another
+or within one file in a single file system.
+.Fa invp
+and
+.Fa outvp
+can refer to the same file.
+For this case, the byte ranges defined by
+.Fa *inoff ,
+.Fa *outoff and
+.Fa *len
+will not overlap.
 .Pp
 The arguments are:
 .Bl -tag -width ioflag



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