Bjarni,
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Package: man-pages
> Version: 3.40
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
>
> From "groff -ww ..." (or "man --warnings=w ...":
>
> <standard input>:758: warning: escape character ignored before `>'
>
> Also periods (full stop) in ellipises "protected" with "\&".
My knowledge here is a bit thin. Can you expand on the previous sentence please.
Thanks,
Michael
>
> Patch:
>
> --- ptrace.2 2012-04-26 22:58:36.000000000 +0000
> +++ ptrace.2.new 2012-05-06 01:13:38.000000000 +0000
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
> Ptrace commands are always sent to
> a specific tracee using a call of the form
>
> - ptrace(PTRACE_foo, pid, ...)
> + ptrace(PTRACE_foo, pid, \&...\&)
>
> where
> .I pid
> @@ -752,7 +752,7 @@
> .I WSTOPSIG(status)
> macro can't be used to perform this examination,
> because it returns the value
> -.IR "(status\>>8)\ &\ 0xff" .)
> +.IR "(status>>8)\ &\ 0xff" .)
> .SS Signal-delivery-stop
> When a (possibly multithreaded) process receives any signal except
> .BR SIGKILL ,
> @@ -1507,14 +1507,14 @@
> .LP
> .nf
> *** we get syscall-enter-stop in thread 1: **
> -PID1 execve("/bin/foo", "foo" <unfinished ...>
> +PID1 execve("/bin/foo", "foo" <unfinished \&...\&>
> *** we issue PTRACE_SYSCALL for thread 1 **
> *** we get syscall-enter-stop in thread 2: **
> -PID2 execve("/bin/bar", "bar" <unfinished ...>
> +PID2 execve("/bin/bar", "bar" <unfinished \&...\&>
> *** we issue PTRACE_SYSCALL for thread 2 **
> *** we get PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC for PID0, we issue PTRACE_SYSCALL **
> *** we get syscall-exit-stop for PID0: **
> -PID0 <... execve resumed> ) = 0
> +PID0 <...\& execve resumed> ) = 0
> .fi
> .LP
> If the
>
> --
> Bjarni I. Gislason
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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