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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-07 15:48:51 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-07 15:48:51 +0000
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mdoc(7) police:
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text. Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the entire enclosed block.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 b/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
index a223b80..177d88b 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
@@ -23,10 +23,8 @@ process) to control another (the
.Em traced
process). Most of the time, the traced process runs normally, but when
it receives a signal
-.Po
-see
-.Xr sigaction 2
-.Pc ,
+(see
+.Xr sigaction 2 ) ,
it stops. The tracing process is expected to notice this via
.Xr wait 2
or the delivery of a
@@ -58,10 +56,8 @@ traced process stops, it cannot be made to continue except via
When a process has used this request and calls
.Xr execve 2
or any of the routines built on it
-.Po
-such as
-.Xr execv 3
-.Pc ,
+(such as
+.Xr execv 3 ) ,
it will stop before executing the first instruction of the new image.
Also, any setuid or setgid bits on the executable being executed will
be ignored.
@@ -136,9 +132,7 @@ The traced process continues execution.
.Fa addr
is an address specifying the place where execution is to be resumed (a
new value for the program counter), or
-.Po
-.Vt caddr_t
-.Pc Ns 1
+.Po Vt caddr_t Pc Ns 1
to indicate that execution is to pick up where it left off.
.Fa data
provides a signal number to be delivered to the traced process as it
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