On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All of the "resuming" ptracer requests treat the data argument the same. > Those are PTRACE_CONT, PTRACE_SYSCALL, PTRACE_*STEP, PTRACE_SYSEMU*. > The data argument is either 0 or a signal number. > The addr argument is ignored by all these. Thanks for jumping in Roland. So, for PTRACE_SYSCALL, the sameantics are like PTRACE_CONT, that is, it is interpreted as a signal to be sent to the child. Right? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- 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