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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:45:35 +0000 (UTC)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r271722 - head/lib/libc/sys
Message-ID:  <201409171945.s8HJjZiQ035409@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: jhb
Date: Wed Sep 17 19:45:34 2014
New Revision: 271722
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/271722

Log:
  - Remove mention of MAP_INHERIT.  It hasn't been implemented for thirteen
    years.
  - Remove mention of unimplemented MAP_SWAP.  There are no future plans to
    implement it.
  
  Submitted by:	alc (2)

Modified:
  head/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2

Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2	Wed Sep 17 19:37:58 2014	(r271721)
+++ head/lib/libc/sys/mmap.2	Wed Sep 17 19:45:34 2014	(r271722)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)mmap.2	8.4 (Berkeley) 5/11/95
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 15, 2014
+.Dd September 17, 2014
 .Dt MMAP 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -176,11 +176,6 @@ already exists within the range.
 .It Dv MAP_HASSEMAPHORE
 Notify the kernel that the region may contain semaphores and that special
 handling may be necessary.
-.It Dv MAP_INHERIT
-This flag never operated as advertised and is no longer supported.
-Please refer to
-.Xr minherit 2
-for further information.
 .It Dv MAP_NOCORE
 Region is not included in a core file.
 .It Dv MAP_NOSYNC
@@ -300,14 +295,6 @@ The
 system call does not unmap pages, see
 .Xr munmap 2
 for further information.
-.Pp
-The current design does not allow a process to specify the location of
-swap space.
-In the future we may define an additional mapping type,
-.Dv MAP_SWAP ,
-in which
-the file descriptor argument specifies a file or device to which swapping
-should be done.
 .Sh NOTES
 Although this implementation does not impose any alignment restrictions on
 the



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