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author | marcel <marcel@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-12 04:43:58 +0000 |
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committer | marcel <marcel@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-12 04:43:58 +0000 |
commit | b71b19f0a262fc3263f5272cdbebf25e10dca6fa (patch) | |
tree | bca1e54f12f12d9c2c5d2540d12833000632b8e1 | |
parent | 582e79f50a2998cc6be173d4bc95915eb6c95ed6 (diff) | |
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Document the new PT_LWPINFO request. In fact, the request is so new
it hasn't even been implemented yet. I just wanted to be the first
to try a new approach to development ;-)
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 b/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 index 18683fa..a8910d7 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 @@ -278,6 +278,25 @@ it loads the traced process's debug registers from the .In machine/reg.h ) pointed to by .Fa addr . +.It Dv PT_LWPINFO +This request can be used to obtain information about the kernel thread, +also known as light-weight process, that caused the traced process to stop. +The +.Fa addr +argument specifies a pointer to a +.Vt "struct ptrace_lwpinfo" , +which is defined as follows: +.Bd -literal +struct ptrace_lwpinfo { + lwpid_t pl_lwpid; /* LWP described. */ + int pl_event; /* Event received. */ +}; +.Ed +.Pp +The +.Fa data +argument is to be set to the size of the structure known to the caller. +This allows the structure to grow without affecting older programs. .El .Pp Additionally, machine-specific requests can exist. |