Re: [PATCH] ptrace.2: wfix

[Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>]

On Tuesday 05 March 2013 17:39, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> [CC+=Denys]
> 
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:40 AM, David Prévot <taffit-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > ---
> >  man2/ptrace.2 |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
> > index 9d1133c..a685049 100644
> > --- a/man2/ptrace.2
> > +++ b/man2/ptrace.2
> > @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ some modifications to the USER area are disallowed.
> >  .TP
> >  .BR PTRACE_GETREGS ", " PTRACE_GETFPREGS
> >  Read the tracee's general-purpose or floating-point registers,
> > -respectively, to the address
> > +respectively, at the address
> >  .I data
> >  in the tracer.
> >  See
> 
> David, I think you are right that there is a wording problem in this
> sentence -- "Read ... to" is not the right preposition .  But I think
> the fix is to change "Read" to "Copy". Thus:
> 
> .TP
> .BR PTRACE_GETREGS ", " PTRACE_GETFPREGS
> - Read the tracee's general-purpose or floating-point registers,
> + Copy the tracee's general-purpose or floating-point registers,
> respectively, to the address
> .I data
> in the tracer.

Sounds ok.
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