On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks Denys. -- 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
