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@@ -970,7 +970,9 @@ otherwise noted.
negative error code if errors occurred before any bytes were remapped.
The remap_flags parameter accepts REMAP_FILE_* flags. If
REMAP_FILE_DEDUP is set then the implementation must only remap if the
- requested file ranges have identical contents.
+ requested file ranges have identical contents. If REMAP_CAN_SHORTEN is
+ set, the caller is ok with the implementation shortening the request
+ length to satisfy alignment or EOF requirements (or any other reason).
fadvise: possibly called by the fadvise64() system call.