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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-08-08 08:04:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-08-08 08:04:49 +0200 |
| commit | 41e1475c910654ce3cd084cdce974a6d0f8b3719 (patch) | |
| tree | 6187f3b284674d260e6631c21a5f80d7dd8cf085 /man5 | |
| parent | aeb7e78817ead3e4482808a0183d0088f87b9758 (diff) | |
proc.5: Minor clarification
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/proc.5 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index fc91b503..f29fb624 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -3265,7 +3265,7 @@ To free pagecache, dentries and inodes, use: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches -Because this is a nondestructive operation and dirty objects +Because writing to this file is a nondestructive operation and dirty objects are not freeable, the user should run .BR sync (8) |