Hi Anoop, Roland, Anoop wrote: > > A few days back Roland McGrath discussed about the ptrace > PTRACE_PEEKUSER behavior @ http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/375 > > Thought that adding a note saying - the offsets and data returned might > not match with the definition of struct user - will help. > > Signed-off-by: Anoop Vijayan <acv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- man-pages-2.79/man2/ptrace.2.orig 2008-05-17 12:54:50.000000000 +0530 > +++ man-pages-2.79/man2/ptrace.2 2008-05-17 13:45:53.000000000 +0530 > @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ The word is returned as the result of th > .BR ptrace () > call. > Typically the offset must be word-aligned, though this might vary by > -architecture. (\fIdata\fP is ignored.) > +architecture. See NOTES. (\fIdata\fP is ignored.) > .TP > .BR PTRACE_POKETEXT ", " PTRACE_POKEDATA > Copies the word > @@ -454,7 +454,9 @@ behavior. > the process with PID 1, may not be traced. > .LP > The layout of the contents of memory and the USER area are quite OS- and > -architecture-specific. > +architecture-specific. The offset supplied and the data returned might > +not entirely match with the definition of > +.I struct user > .LP > The size of a "word" is determined by the OS variant > (e.g., for 32-bit Linux it is 32 bits, etc.). Anoop -- I'll just ask for a second opinion here, since I'm not familiar with all the details. Roland, does this change seem okay to you? Cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
