From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:27:10 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: mprotect.2: wfix
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mprotect.2: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/mprotect.2 b/man2/mprotect.2
index f4896814ef..1bca57e5a5 100644
--- a/man2/mprotect.2
+++ b/man2/mprotect.2
@@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ mprotect, pkey_mprotect \- set protection on a region of memory
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR mprotect ()
-changes protection for the calling process's memory page(s)
+changes the access protections for the calling process's memory pages
 containing any part of the address range in the
 interval [\fIaddr\fP,\ \fIaddr\fP+\fIlen\fP\-1].
 .I addr
 must be aligned to a page boundary.
 
 If the calling process tries to access memory in a manner
-that violates the protection, then the kernel generates a
+that violates the protections, then the kernel generates a
 .B SIGSEGV
 signal for the process.
 .PP