Hi, On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Gokdeniz Karadag <gokdenizk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > In a program I was debugging, waitid(2) returned a strange value in siginfo_t > structure's si_code field. It was different that those stated in the man page > for waitid(2) [ waitid(2) man page is the same as wait(2) ]. > > When I looked at the relevant file "/usr/include/bits/siginfo.h" there were two > more values for si_code: > > CLD_DUMPED, /* Child terminated abnormally. */ > CLD_TRAPPED, /* Traced child has trapped. */ > > I was getting CLD_DUMPED value along with core dumps so I state that as an > example in the patch. I'm not sure about how a process can get CLD_TRAPPED but > I include it for completeness' sake. > > The diff applies to today's git version. Thanks for spotting that. I tweaked your patch a little to make the text as follows: [[ .B CLD_DUMPED (child killed by signal, and dumped core); .B CLD_TRAPPED (traced child has trapped); or ]] The change will be in man-pages-3.22. Thanks, Michael > ============================== diff ====================== > > diff --git a/man2/wait.2 b/man2/wait.2 > index c95ff2c..4028fae 100644 > --- a/man2/wait.2 > +++ b/man2/wait.2 > @@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ Set to one of: > .BR _exit (2)); > .B CLD_KILLED > (child killed by signal); > +.B CLD_DUMPED > +(child terminated abnormally, ie. core dump); > +.B CLD_TRAPPED > +(child has trapped while being traced); > .B CLD_STOPPED > (child stopped by signal); or > .B CLD_CONTINUED > > ========================================================== > > > -- > Gokdeniz Karadag > > -- 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
