(split) LDP_man-pages: update original to v3.34.

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / prctl.2

diff --git a/original/man2/prctl.2 b/original/man2/prctl.2
index bb455fa..55b5b74 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/original/man2/prctl.2
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 .\" FIXME: Document PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE and
 .\"        PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE (new in 2.6.32)
 .\"
-.TH PRCTL 2 2010-05-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH PRCTL 2 2011-09-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 prctl \- operations on a process
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ is called with a first argument describing what to do
 arguments with a significance depending on the first one.
 The first argument can be:
 .TP
-.BR PR_CAPBSET_READ " (since Linux 2.6.25)
+.BR PR_CAPBSET_READ " (since Linux 2.6.25)"
 Return (as the function result) 1 if the capability specified in
 .I arg2
 is in the calling thread's capability bounding set,
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ for security reasons, this feature has been removed.
 .I /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable
 in
 .BR proc (5).)
+Processes that are not dumpable can not be attached via
+.BR ptrace(2)
+.BR PTRACE_ATTACH .
 .TP
 .BR PR_GET_DUMPABLE " (since Linux 2.3.20)"
 Return (as the function result) the current state of the calling
@@ -361,7 +364,7 @@ signal as soon as hardware memory corruption is detected inside
 its address space.
 In late kill mode, the process is only killed when it accesses a corrupted page.
 See
-.I sigaction(2)
+.BR sigaction (2)
 for more information on the
 .BR SIGBUS
 signal.