On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > the ptrace(2) page doesnt say anything about the data field (ignored or > otherwise). it seems to be ignored, but i didnt trace the kernel > exhaustively. the examples found via google shows that it's ignored. strace > usage seems odd (it passes in an irrelevant pointer), which would indicate > it's ignored as well ... > -mike Mike, For man-pages-3.20, I've upated the PTRACE_SYSCALL documentation to note that 'data' is used as for PTRACE_CONT. I've also added similar text to PTRAC_SYSEMU*. 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
