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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-09-10 12:44:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-09-10 12:49:01 +0200 |
| commit | c3543fab53ea1d544a2e3a10c129231ecf160b64 (patch) | |
| tree | cc0202fa820ab9e291a33e537467a38c494fca13 | |
| parent | fc91449cb5ed29ffad18270d4fdc5a5091cd4e45 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-c3543fab53ea1d544a2e3a10c129231ecf160b64.tar.gz | |
ptrace.2: Minor tweaks to Dmitry Levin's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/ptrace.2 | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2 index 3b774f87bf..ff897bb19c 100644 --- a/man2/ptrace.2 +++ b/man2/ptrace.2 @@ -1008,24 +1008,25 @@ this ptrace operation can't be used to allocate a free TLS entry.) .TP .BR PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO " (since Linux 5.3)" .\" commit 201766a20e30f982ccfe36bebfad9602c3ff574a -Retrieve information about the syscall that caused the stop. -The information is placed into the buffer pointed by +Retrieve information about the system call that caused the stop. +The information is placed into the buffer pointed by the .I data argument, which should be a pointer to a buffer of type .IR "struct ptrace_syscall_info" . The .I addr argument contains the size of the buffer pointed to -by +by the .I data argument (i.e., .IR "sizeof(struct ptrace_syscall_info)" ). The return value contains the number of bytes available to be written by the kernel. -If the size of data to be written by the kernel exceeds the size -specified by +If the size of the data to be written by the kernel exceeds the size +specified by the .I addr -argument, the output is truncated. +argument, the output data is truncated. +.\" FIXME Document 'struct ptrace_syscall_info' .\" .SS Death under ptrace When a (possibly multithreaded) process receives a killing signal |