On Tuesday 05 March 2013 17:39, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > [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. Sounds ok. -- 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
