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authorEugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>2016-12-12 06:54:18 +0300
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-12-12 07:18:46 +0100
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prctl.2: Some additional details regarding PR_GET_UNALIGNED operation
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/prctl.213
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index 11e51d209e..a87eed49cf 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -1109,20 +1109,27 @@ in the location pointed to by
.TP
.B PR_SET_UNALIGN
(Only on: ia64, since Linux 2.3.48; parisc, since Linux 2.6.15;
-PowerPC, since Linux 2.6.18; Alpha, since Linux 2.6.22)
+PowerPC, since Linux 2.6.18; Alpha, since Linux 2.6.22;
+.\" sh: 94ea5e449ae834af058ef005d16a8ad44fcf13d6
+.\" tile: 2f9ac29eec71a696cb0dcc5fb82c0f8d4dac28c9
+sh, since Linux 2.6.34; tile, since Linux 3.12)
Set unaligned access control bits to \fIarg2\fP.
Pass
\fBPR_UNALIGN_NOPRINT\fP to silently fix up unaligned user accesses,
or \fBPR_UNALIGN_SIGBUS\fP to generate
.B SIGBUS
-on unaligned user access.
+on unaligned user access. Alpha also supports an additional flag with the value
+of 4 and no corresponding named constant, which instructs kernel to not fix up
+unaligned accesses (it is analogous to providing the
+.BR UAC_NOFIX " flag in " SSI_NVPAIRS " operation of " setsysinfo
+syscall on Tru64).
.TP
.B PR_GET_UNALIGN
(see
.B PR_SET_UNALIGN
for information on versions and architectures)
Return unaligned access control bits, in the location pointed to by
-.IR "(int\ *) arg2" .
+.IR "(unsigned int\ *) arg2" .
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success,
.BR PR_GET_DUMPABLE ,