From 24bc93cb63380fcfeeea9ac70b705a72efa67f3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:29:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mtrace.1: Minor fixes and rewordings Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man1/mtrace.1 | 28 +++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/man1/mtrace.1 b/man1/mtrace.1 index bb235bdaa..cc92117c4 100644 --- a/man1/mtrace.1 +++ b/man1/mtrace.1 @@ -24,32 +24,30 @@ .SH NAME mtrace \- interpret the malloc trace log .SH SYNOPSIS -.BR mtrace " [\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIBINARY\fR] \fIMTRACEDATA\fR" +.BR mtrace " [\fIoption\fR]... [\fIbinary\fR] \fImtracedata\fR" .SH DESCRIPTION .B mtrace is a Perl script used to interpret and provide human readable output -of the trace log created by -.BR mtrace (3) -function stored in the -.B MTRACEDATA -file. +of the trace log contained in the file +.IR mtracedata , +whose contents were produced by +.BR mtrace (3). If -.B BINARY -is provided, output of +.I binary +is provided, the output of .B mtrace -also contains source file name with line number information -of problem location +also contains the source file name with line number information +for problem locations (assuming that -.B BINARY +.I binary was compiled with debugging information). -For more information about +For more information about the .BR mtrace (3) function and .B mtrace -script usage, refer to the -.BR mtrace (3) -manual page. +script usage, see +.BR mtrace (3). .SH OPTIONS .TP .BI \fB\-\-help