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ptrace.2: Minor tweaks to Dmitry Levin's patch 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2019-09-10 12:44:14 +02:00
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@ -1008,24 +1008,25 @@ this ptrace operation can't be used to allocate a free TLS entry.)
.TP
.BR PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO " (since Linux 5.3)"
.\" commit 201766a20e30f982ccfe36bebfad9602c3ff574a
Retrieve information about the syscall that caused the stop.
The information is placed into the buffer pointed by
Retrieve information about the system call that caused the stop.
The information is placed into the buffer pointed by the
.I data
argument, which should be a pointer to a buffer of type
.IR "struct ptrace_syscall_info" .
The
.I addr
argument contains the size of the buffer pointed to
by
by the
.I data
argument (i.e.,
.IR "sizeof(struct ptrace_syscall_info)" ).
The return value contains the number of bytes available
to be written by the kernel.
If the size of data to be written by the kernel exceeds the size
specified by
If the size of the data to be written by the kernel exceeds the size
specified by the
.I addr
argument, the output is truncated.
argument, the output data is truncated.
.\" FIXME Document 'struct ptrace_syscall_info'
.\"
.SS Death under ptrace
When a (possibly multithreaded) process receives a killing signal