[CC+=Denys] On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:40 AM, David Prévot <taffit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- > man2/ptrace.2 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2 > index 9d1133c..a685049 100644 > --- a/man2/ptrace.2 > +++ b/man2/ptrace.2 > @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ some modifications to the USER area are disallowed. > .TP > .BR PTRACE_GETREGS ", " PTRACE_GETFPREGS > Read the tracee's general-purpose or floating-point registers, > -respectively, to the address > +respectively, at the address > .I data > in the tracer. > See David, I think you are right that there is a wording problem in this sentence -- "Read ... to" is not the right preposition . But I think the fix is to change "Read" to "Copy". Thus: .TP .BR PTRACE_GETREGS ", " PTRACE_GETFPREGS - Read the tracee's general-purpose or floating-point registers, + Copy the tracee's general-purpose or floating-point registers, respectively, to the address .I data in the tracer. Denys can confirm, since he wrote the original text. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
