[patch], ptrace(2): Unnecessary escape before ">"

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig-2945IVfuVpf1P9xLtpHBDw@public.gmane.org>]

Package: man-pages
Version: 3.40
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

  From "groff -ww ..." (or "man --warnings=w ...":

<standard input>:758: warning: escape character ignored before `>'

  Also periods (full stop) in ellipises "protected" with "\&".

  Patch:

--- ptrace.2	2012-04-26 22:58:36.000000000 +0000
+++ ptrace.2.new	2012-05-06 01:13:38.000000000 +0000
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 Ptrace commands are always sent to
 a specific tracee using a call of the form
 
-    ptrace(PTRACE_foo, pid, ...)
+    ptrace(PTRACE_foo, pid, \&...\&)
 
 where
 .I pid
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@
 .I WSTOPSIG(status)
 macro can't be used to perform this examination,
 because it returns the value
-.IR "(status\>>8)\ &\ 0xff" .)
+.IR "(status>>8)\ &\ 0xff" .)
 .SS Signal-delivery-stop
 When a (possibly multithreaded) process receives any signal except
 .BR SIGKILL ,
@@ -1507,14 +1507,14 @@
 .LP
 .nf
 *** we get syscall-enter-stop in thread 1: **
-PID1 execve("/bin/foo", "foo" <unfinished ...>
+PID1 execve("/bin/foo", "foo" <unfinished \&...\&>
 *** we issue PTRACE_SYSCALL for thread 1 **
 *** we get syscall-enter-stop in thread 2: **
-PID2 execve("/bin/bar", "bar" <unfinished ...>
+PID2 execve("/bin/bar", "bar" <unfinished \&...\&>
 *** we issue PTRACE_SYSCALL for thread 2 **
 *** we get PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC for PID0, we issue PTRACE_SYSCALL **
 *** we get syscall-exit-stop for PID0: **
-PID0 <... execve resumed> )             = 0
+PID0 <...\& execve resumed> )             = 0
 .fi
 .LP
 If the

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Bjarni I. Gislason
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