Update the shm_open.2 man page to reflect objective reality.

PR:		215612
Submitted by:	rwatson
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9066
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd December 18, 2013
.Dd January 13, 2017
.Dt SHM_OPEN 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Dv O_TRUNC
flags may be used in portable programs.
.Pp
The result of using
.Tn POSIX
specifications state that the result of using
.Xr open 2 ,
.Xr read 2 ,
or
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on a shared memory object, or on the descriptor returned by
.Fn shm_open ,
is undefined.
It is also undefined whether the shared memory object itself, or its
contents, persist across reboots.
.Pp
In FreeBSD,
However, the
.Fx
kernel implementation explicitly includes support for
.Xr read 2
and
.Xr write 2
on a shared memory object will fail with
.Er EOPNOTSUPP
and neither shared memory objects nor their contents persist across reboots.
.Xr write 2 .
.Pp
Neither shared memory objects nor their contents persist across reboots.
.Pp
Writes do not extend shared memory objects, so
.Xr ftruncate 2
must be called before any data can be written.
See
.Sx EXAMPLES .
.Sh EXAMPLES
This example fails without the call to
.Xr ftruncate 2 :
.Bd -literal -compact
uint8_t buffer[getpagesize()];
ssize_t len;
int fd;
fd = shm_open(SHM_ANON, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0600);
if (fd < 0)
err(EX_OSERR, "%s: shm_open", __func__);
if (ftruncate(fd, getpagesize()) < 0)
err(EX_IOERR, "%s: ftruncate", __func__);
len = pwrite(fd, buffer, getpagesize(), 0);
if (len < 0)
err(EX_IOERR, "%s: pwrite", __func__);
if (len != getpagesize())
errx(EX_IOERR, "%s: pwrite length mismatch", __func__);
.Ed
.Sh ERRORS
The following errors are defined for
.Fn shm_open :
.Fn shm_open
fails with these error codes for these conditions:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
A flag other than
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The required permissions (for reading or reading and writing) are denied.
.El
.Pp
The following errors are defined for
.Fn shm_unlink :
.Fn shm_unlink
fails with these error codes for these conditions:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EFAULT
The