prctl.2: Minor tweaks to Eugene Syromyatnikov's patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index 19b9789f8426adaa4ab7b65fdd7813a49e923c73..11e51d209e08d3bd6938084242c4a18da9350738 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -988,10 +988,13 @@ flag, in the location pointed to by
 .IR "(int\ **)\ arg2" .
 This feature is available only if the kernel is built with the
 .BR CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
-option enabled. Note that since the prctl() syscall does not have compat
-implementation for AMD64 x32 and MIPS n32 ABIs, and the kernel writes out
-pointer of kernel's pointer size, this operation expects a user space buffer
-of 8 (not 4) bytes on these ABIs.
+option enabled.
+Note that since the
+.BR prctl ()
+system call does not have a compat implementation for
+the AMD64 x32 and MIPS n32 ABIs,
+and the kernel writes out a pointer using the kernel's pointer size,
+this operation expects a user-space buffer of 8 (not 4) bytes on these ABIs.
 .TP
 .BR PR_SET_TIMERSLACK " (since Linux 2.6.28)"
 .\" See https://lwn.net/Articles/369549/