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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-12-12 07:17:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-12-12 07:17:48 +0100 |
| commit | c7f2f9ed165ee4382dd4ba37de3190c8fa8a6c04 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f498da14972b5b6784489d1177bd33ed6c7d87a | |
| parent | c49be32cd925a7b2b8b31a875ce96fb9c7025e12 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-c7f2f9ed165ee4382dd4ba37de3190c8fa8a6c04.tar.gz | |
prctl.2: Minor tweaks to Eugene Syromyatnikov's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/prctl.2 | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2 index 19b9789f84..11e51d209e 100644 --- a/man2/prctl.2 +++ b/man2/prctl.2 @@ -988,10 +988,13 @@ flag, in the location pointed to by .IR "(int\ **)\ arg2" . This feature is available only if the kernel is built with the .BR CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE -option enabled. Note that since the prctl() syscall does not have compat -implementation for AMD64 x32 and MIPS n32 ABIs, and the kernel writes out -pointer of kernel's pointer size, this operation expects a user space buffer -of 8 (not 4) bytes on these ABIs. +option enabled. +Note that since the +.BR prctl () +system call does not have a compat implementation for +the AMD64 x32 and MIPS n32 ABIs, +and the kernel writes out a pointer using the kernel's pointer size, +this operation expects a user-space buffer of 8 (not 4) bytes on these ABIs. .TP .BR PR_SET_TIMERSLACK " (since Linux 2.6.28)" .\" See https://lwn.net/Articles/369549/ |