svn commit: r189399 - in head: . lib/libc/sys

[Konstantin Belousov]

Author: kib
Date: Thu Mar  5 12:04:42 2009
New Revision: 189399
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/189399

Log:
  Hopefully, improve the grammar and wording in the changes to shmctl(2)
  manpage and UPDATING entry 20090302.
  
  UPDATING changes suggested by bf2006a yahoo com.
  man page corrections by bde.

Modified:
  head/UPDATING
  head/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Thu Mar  5 11:45:42 2009	(r189398)
+++ head/UPDATING	Thu Mar  5 12:04:42 2009	(r189399)
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.
 	ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
 
 20090302:
-	The workaround is committed to allow to create System V shared
-	memory segment of size > 2 Gb on the 64-bit architectures.
-	Due to limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
+	A workaround is committed to allow the creation of System V shared
+	memory segment of size > 2 GB on the 64-bit architectures.
+	Due to a limitation of the existing ABI, the shm_segsz member
 	of the struct shmid_ds, returned by shmctl(IPC_STAT) call is
-	wrong for large segments. Note that limits shall be explicitely
+	wrong for large segments. Note that limits must be explicitely
 	raised to allow such segments to be created.
 
 20090301:

Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2	Thu Mar  5 11:45:42 2009	(r189398)
+++ head/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2	Thu Mar  5 12:04:42 2009	(r189399)
@@ -134,12 +134,13 @@ Permission denied due to mismatch betwee
 shared memory segment.
 .El
 .Sh "BUGS"
+The segment size has size_t type.
 The shm_segsz member of the
 .Vt shmid_ds
-structure has int type, that is too short to represent full range
-of the values for segment size, which is allowed to be size_t.
-If shared memory limits are raised to allow segments with size > 2 Gb
-to be created, be aware that IPC_STAT call may return truncated value
+structure has type int, which is too short to represent the full range
+of values for a segment size.
+If shared memory limits are raised to allow segments with size > 2 GB
+to be created, be aware that IPC_STAT call may return a truncated value
 for shm_segsz.
 .El
 .Sh "SEE ALSO"