Module Name: src
Committed By: kamil
Date: Fri Apr 7 00:56:14 UTC 2017
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/sys: ptrace.2
Log Message:
Correction in ptrace(2) about operations that emit signals
PT_STEP and PT_DETACH cannot emit signals
PT_CONTINUE and PT_SYSCALL can emit signals
Pointed out by <chs>
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.62 -r1.63 src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:
Index: src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
diff -u src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2:1.62 src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2:1.63
--- src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2:1.62 Thu Feb 23 08:11:09 2017
+++ src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 Fri Apr 7 00:56:14 2017
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.62 2017/02/23 08:11:09 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.63 2017/04/07 00:56:14 kamil Exp $
.\"
.\" This file is in the public domain.
-.Dd February 23, 2017
+.Dd April 7, 2017
.Dt PTRACE 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -535,11 +535,10 @@ argument should be set to
.Li sizeof(struct ptrace_siginfo) .
.Pp
In order to pass faked signal to the tracee,
-the signal type must match the signal passed to process with
-.Dv PT_CONTINUE ,
-.Dv PT_DETACH
+the signal type must match the signal passed to the process with
+.Dv PT_CONTINUE
or
-.Dv PT_STEP .
+.Dv PT_SYSCALL .
.It Dv PT_GET_SIGINFO
This request can be used to determine signal information that was received by
a debugger
