Re: [PATCH] sigaction.2: describe the usage of struct sigcontext

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Hello Eugene

On 2/22/19 5:26 PM, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:
> * man2/sigaction.2 (.SS Undocumented): Provide information about relation
> between the second argument of sa_handler and uc_mcontext field of the
> struct ucontext structure.

Patch applied. One question below.

> Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man2/sigaction.2 | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/sigaction.2 b/man2/sigaction.2
> index fc44251..56d0678 100644
> --- a/man2/sigaction.2
> +++ b/man2/sigaction.2
> @@ -1009,7 +1009,14 @@ it was also possible to get some additional information,
>  namely by using a
>  .I sa_handler
>  with a second argument of type
> -.IR "struct sigcontext".

Is the type 'struct sigcontext' or is it rather 'struct sigcontext *'?

Thanks,

Michael

> +.I "struct sigcontext"
> +(it is the same structure as the one that is passed in the
> +.I uc_mcontext
> +field of the
> +.I struct ucontext
> +structure, pointer to which is passed in the third argument of
> +.I sa_sigaction
> +handler).
>  See the relevant Linux kernel sources for details.
>  This use is obsolete now.
>  .SH BUGS
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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