(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.40.

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

diff --git a/original/man2/ptrace.2 b/original/man2/ptrace.2
index 8c321e4..38c4ebd 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/ptrace.2
+++ b/original/man2/ptrace.2
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 .\" FIXME Linux 3.1 adds PTRACE_SEIZE, PTRACE_INTERRUPT,
 .\"                and PTRACE_LISTEN.
 .\"
-.TH PTRACE 2 2012-03-30 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH PTRACE 2 2012-04-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 ptrace \- process trace
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -222,6 +222,14 @@ See
 for information on the format of this data.
 .RI ( addr
 is ignored.)
+Note that SPARC systems have the meaning of
+.I data
+and
+.I addr
+reversed; that is,
+.I data
+is ignored and the registers are copied to the address
+.IR addr .
 .TP
 .BR PTRACE_GETSIGINFO " (since Linux 2.3.99-pre6)"
 Retrieve information about the signal that caused the stop.
@@ -247,6 +255,14 @@ some general-purpose register modifications may be disallowed.
 .\" and when they are disallowed, how does userspace discover that fact?
 .RI ( addr
 is ignored.)
+Note that SPARC systems have the meaning of
+.I data
+and
+.I addr
+reversed; that is,
+.I data
+is ignored and the registers are copied from the address
+.IR addr .
 .TP
 .BR PTRACE_SETSIGINFO " (since Linux 2.3.99-pre6)"
 Set signal information: