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@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length
defaults to 0. *offset* must be a multiple of the PAGESIZE or
ALLOCATIONGRANULARITY.
+ To ensure validity of the created memory mapping the file specified
+ by the descriptor *fileno* is internally automatically synchronized
+ with physical backing store on Mac OS X and OpenVMS.
+
This example shows a simple way of using :class:`mmap`::
import mmap