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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/shmctl.29
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2 b/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2
index 3e19666..2ac7d05 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/shmctl.2
@@ -134,12 +134,13 @@ Permission denied due to mismatch between operation and mode of
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"
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