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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-03-20 13:40:08 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-03-20 13:40:08 +0000 |
commit | 17501cd945c5ce1f1f657baa3cee3dceb14a4d85 (patch) | |
tree | fc6319a229840335c643ba0aa532e9ec1ff8fbf4 /lib/libc/sys | |
parent | b62f36d9ed34d7d205c68cb781634848be3dc467 (diff) | |
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mdoc(7) police: Fixed the spammage of this file with trailing whitespaces
in revisions 1.26-1.28. Fixed two bugs in punctuation cleanup in rev. 1.27.
Removed hard sentence break not killed by rev. 1.26.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 | 41 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 b/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 index 66f0b2f..7b08791 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 @@ -18,16 +18,16 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION .Fn ptrace provides tracing and debugging facilities. -It allows one process +It allows one process (the .Em tracing -process) -to control another +process) +to control another (the .Em traced -process.) +process). Most of the time, the traced process runs normally, but when it -receives a signal +receives a signal (see .Xr sigaction 2 ) , it stops. @@ -85,14 +85,12 @@ In the current implementation, these two requests are completely identical. The .Fa addr -argument specifies the address -(in the traced process's virtual address space) +argument specifies the address +(in the traced process's virtual address space) at which the read is to be done. -This address does not have to meet any alignment constraints. +This address does not have to meet any alignment constraints. The value read is returned as the return value from -.Eo \& -.Fn ptrace -.Ec . +.Fn ptrace . .It Dv PT_WRITE_I , Dv PT_WRITE_D These requests parallel .Dv PT_READ_I @@ -105,10 +103,10 @@ argument supplies the value to be written. .It Dv PT_IO This request allows reading and writing arbitrary amounts of data in the traced process's address space. -The +The .Fa addr -argument specifies a pointer to a -.Vt struct ptrace_io_desc , +argument specifies a pointer to a +.Vt "struct ptrace_io_desc" , which is defined as follows: .Bd -literal struct ptrace_io_desc { @@ -136,8 +134,8 @@ upon return. .It Dv PT_CONTINUE 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,) +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 to indicate that execution is to pick up where it left off. @@ -160,7 +158,8 @@ given as the signal to be delivered. .It Dv PT_ATTACH This request allows a process to gain control of an otherwise unrelated process and begin tracing it. -It does not need any cooperation from the to-be-traced process. In +It does not need any cooperation from the to-be-traced process. +In this case, .Fa pid specifies the process ID of the to-be-traced process, and the other @@ -246,7 +245,7 @@ Additionally, machine-specific requests can exist. Some requests can cause .Fn ptrace to return -.Li -1 +\-1 as a non-error value; to disambiguate, .Va errno can be set to 0 before the call and checked afterwards. @@ -271,7 +270,7 @@ The .Fa request was not one of the legal requests. .It -The signal number +The signal number (in .Fa data ) to @@ -297,7 +296,7 @@ was attempted on a process that was already being traced. A request attempted to manipulate a process that was being traced by some process other than the one making the request. .It -A request +A request (other than .Dv PT_ATTACH ) specified a process that wasn't stopped. @@ -305,7 +304,7 @@ specified a process that wasn't stopped. .It Bq Er EPERM .Bl -bullet -compact .It -A request +A request (other than .Dv PT_ATTACH ) attempted to manipulate a process that wasn't being traced at all. |