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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200
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man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS. - Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_ systems. - STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards. That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17 is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux', 'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs. - In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds. - In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I found are deprecated by the relevant standards. - A few other related changes... Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
index 9737b38258..34152c09c0 100644
--- a/man2/ptrace.2
+++ b/man2/ptrace.2
@@ -2435,7 +2435,14 @@ The specified process does not exist, or is not currently being traced
by the caller, or is not stopped
(for requests that require a stopped tracee).
.SH STANDARDS
+None.
+.SH HISTORY
SVr4, 4.3BSD.
+.PP
+Before Linux 2.6.26,
+.\" See commit 00cd5c37afd5f431ac186dd131705048c0a11fdb
+.BR init (1),
+the process with PID 1, may not be traced.
.SH NOTES
Although arguments to
.BR ptrace ()
@@ -2452,11 +2459,6 @@ setting unused/ignored arguments to
or
.IR "(void\ *)\ 0".
.PP
-Before Linux 2.6.26,
-.\" See commit 00cd5c37afd5f431ac186dd131705048c0a11fdb
-.BR init (1),
-the process with PID 1, may not be traced.
-.PP
A tracees parent continues to be the tracer even if that tracer calls
.BR execve (2).
.PP