"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello Heiko, > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Heiko Carstens > <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ... >> So, what do you think? Should these architecture specific details go >> into the ptrace(2) man page? >> Or somewhere else? Like e.g. Documentation/<arch>/ptrace.txt in the kernel? >> Or maybe an arch specific "sub" man page like e.g. ptrace.<arch>? > > I am not sure, mainly because I am not familiar with the extent of the > architecture-specific variation in ptrace(2). I do see that there is > just a very little arch-specific detail in the man page (x86, SPARC). > I am not (yet) sure of the way forward. Per architecture there would potentially be a few hundred lines of additional documentation. For example, the various register sets could be enumerated and their layout summarized. And all the architecture-specific ptrace requests could be explained. > I have CCed Denys Vlasenko, since in recent times he has done a lot of > work on this page, and I assume has a lot of familiarity with the > various arch-specific details. Perhaps he has an opinion. Denys, do you have an opinion? -- 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
