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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-06-29 14:10:33 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-06-29 14:10:33 +0000
commit56f6529fc36c6db13ad6ff247464d6b0c9e0d023 (patch)
tree370910d2e05f30a3e4f78b5160a518c3222aa9f9 /lib/libc/sys/shmat.2
parent7e10459e58879c6c2e91c7f14687227390272c68 (diff)
- change references to nil to null; tschroed@acm.org
- remove trailing spaces from end of lines - add some .Dv - change -1 to \-1, so `-' is taken as a negative sign - other misc formatting fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/shmat.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/shmat.220
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/shmat.2 b/lib/libc/sys/shmat.2
index 960fe6759b6..8e20b9d4650 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/shmat.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/shmat.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: shmat.2,v 1.7 1999/05/27 16:54:23 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: shmat.2,v 1.8 1999/06/29 14:10:19 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: shmat.2,v 1.2 1997/03/27 08:20:38 mikel Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Frank van der Linden
@@ -56,15 +56,21 @@ parameter. If it is equal to 0, the system will pick an address itself.
Otherwise, an attempt is made to map the shared memory segment at the
address
.Fa shmaddr
-specifies. If SHM_RND is set in
+specifies. If
+.Dv SHM_RND
+is set in
.Fa shmflg ,
-the system will round the address down to a multiple of SHMLBA bytes
-(SHMLBA is defined in
+the system will round the address down to a multiple of
+.Dv SHMLBA
+bytes
+.Pf ( Dv SHMLBA
+is defined in
.Aq Pa sys/shm.h
).
.Pp
A shared memory segment can be mapped read-only by specifying the
-SHM_RDONLY flag in
+.Dv SHM_RDONLY
+flag in
.Fa shmflg .
.Pp
.Fn shmdt
@@ -83,9 +89,9 @@ command.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn shmat
returns the address at which the shared memory segment has been mapped into
-the calling process' address space when successful,
+the calling process' address space when successful,
.Fn shmdt
-returns 0 on successful completion. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned,
+returns 0 on successful completion. Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned,
and the global variable
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.