Can somebody of the HPPA team help and provide enough information to fix the manpage ptrace(2)? Any help would be gladly appreciated. A patch (against the version in unstable) would be the best
Johan Walles wrote: > From "http://bugs.debian.org/122383". > > " > What I stumbled upon was that PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS, > PTRACE_SETREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS don't exist on IA64. I wish I > could give a more detailed report, and detail exactly what is wrong > with it, but the reason I want an updated man page is that I want to > read it. If knew what it was supposed to say I wouldn't need it... > " > > I can understand if this information is not enough for correcting the > documentation. But while my knowledge of how ptrace() works is enough > to see that the man page is broken (see above), it is not enough to say > what the man page should actually say. Neither do I know who would know > what the man page should say. If you don't know either, I guess the > only approach left is to leave the man page incorrect and hope that > somebody with more knowledge of ptrace() than me or you comes along and > fixes it. Regards, Joey -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

