[PATCH] manual: adjust reference to man-pages following proc(5) split-up

Adhemerval Zanella Netto adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Fri Aug 28 11:13:40 GMT 2026



On 28/08/26 00:57, Collin Funk wrote:
> The reference to MAP_NORESERVE and /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory was
> moved from proc(5) to proc_sys(5) in man-pages commit bfc1299e7 (proc.5,
> proc_sys.5: Split /proc/sys/ from proc(5), 2023-08-15). It was
> subsequently moved to proc_sys_vm(5) in man-pages commit
> b06cd070f (proc_sys.5, proc_sys_vm.5: Split /proc/sys/vm/ from
> proc_sys(5), 2023-09-30).
> ---
>  manual/llio.texi | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi
> index 405174839f..aa8f3b82b5 100644
> --- a/manual/llio.texi
> +++ b/manual/llio.texi
> @@ -1887,8 +1887,8 @@ @node Memory-mapped I/O
>  unable to map a page due to lack of resources.
>  
>  On Linux, this flag's behavior may be overridden by
> -@file{/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory} as documented in the proc(5) man
> -page.
> +@file{/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory} as documented in the
> +proc_sys_vm(5) man page.

Maybe add it might be documented in both since we can't be sure which
man-pages version has installed.

>  
>  @item MAP_STACK
>  Ensures that the resulting mapping is suitable for use as a program



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