Re: [PING v1] [PATCH] ptrace.2: mention PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO in RETURN VALUE section

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Dmitry,

On 4/26/21 8:39 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> Ping?

Sorry, Michael is very busy these days.  Please prefer sending the 
patches to both of us, so I can apply them if Michael doesn't see them.

> 
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:42:57PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> Mirror the wording about PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO return value semantics
>> from "DESCRIPTION" section to "RETURN VALUE" section.
>>
>> Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
>> Complements: fc91449cb "ptrace.2: Document PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO"
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Patch applied.

Thanks,

Alex


>> ---
>>   man2/ptrace.2 | 7 +++++--
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
>> index 5245338ba..c5e75c274 100644
>> --- a/man2/ptrace.2
>> +++ b/man2/ptrace.2
>> @@ -2327,8 +2327,11 @@ On success, the
>>   requests return the requested data (but see NOTES),
>>   the
>>   .B PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER
>> -request returns the number of instructions in the BPF program, and
>> -other requests return zero.
>> +request returns the number of instructions in the BPF program,
>> +the
>> +.B PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO
>> +request returns the number of bytes available to be written by the kernel,
>> +and other requests return zero.
>>   .PP
>>   On error, all requests return \-1, and
>>   .I errno
>> -- 
>> ldv
> 


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