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mlock.2: Improve wording

PATCH In review Avinesh Kumar 2 participants 2 messages Apr 5, 2023 – Apr 7, 2023 Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 mlock.2: Improve wording

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 man2/mlock.2 | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
man2/mlock.2 +2 -2
index 30828fbdf..ecd7158e5 100644
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ and
 .BR munlockall ()
 perform the converse operation,
 unlocking part or all of the calling process's virtual
-address space, so that pages in the specified virtual address range may
-once more be swapped out if required by the kernel memory manager.
+address space, so that pages in the specified virtual address range
+can be swapped out again if required by the kernel memory manager.
 .PP
 Memory locking and unlocking are performed in units of whole pages.
 .SS mlock(), mlock2(), and munlock()
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Hi Avinesh,

Quoted 1 line · Avinesh Kumar

Patch applied. Thanks,

Alex

Quoted 19 lines
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 man2/mlock.2 | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
man2/mlock.2 +2 -2
index 30828fbdf..ecd7158e5 100644
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ and
 .BR munlockall ()
 perform the converse operation,
 unlocking part or all of the calling process's virtual
-address space, so that pages in the specified virtual address range may
-once more be swapped out if required by the kernel memory manager.
+address space, so that pages in the specified virtual address range
+can be swapped out again if required by the kernel memory manager.
 .PP
 Memory locking and unlocking are performed in units of whole pages.
 .SS mlock(), mlock2(), and munlock()
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