From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 1 19:10:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6346037B4EC for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:10:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f123A2567609; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:10:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102020310.f123A2567609@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: docs/24035: ptrace(2) PT_STEP incorrect documentation Reply-To: Nik Clayton Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/24035; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nik Clayton To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/24035: ptrace(2) PT_STEP incorrect documentation Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 02:57:17 +0000 Folks, On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:05:29PM -0800, bnjf@optushome.com.au wrote: > >Number: 24035 > >Category: docs > >Synopsis: ptrace(2) PT_STEP incorrect documentation > >Description: > > in the man pge > PT_STEP The traced process is single stepped one instruction. The > addr and data fields are not used. > > this is a lie. you must feed ptrace() a valid value for addr, just like > PT_CONTINUE ? I've poked through ptrace.S, but it's been a long time since I did any assembler, and when I did, it was 6502. . . N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message