linux-man.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH] ptrace.2: document PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO
@ 2019-09-02 12:38 Dmitry V. Levin
  2019-09-10 10:51 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry V. Levin @ 2019-09-02 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Kerrisk; +Cc: Elvira Khabirova, linux-man

PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request was introduced by Linux kernel commit
201766a20e30f982ccfe36bebfad9602c3ff574a aka v5.3-rc1~65^2~23.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
---
 man2/ptrace.2 | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
index 8b8daf238..3b774f87b 100644
--- a/man2/ptrace.2
+++ b/man2/ptrace.2
@@ -1005,6 +1005,27 @@ of the
 .IR "struct user_desc"
 is ignored; in other words,
 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
+.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
+.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
+.I addr
+argument, the output is truncated.
 .\"
 .SS Death under ptrace
 When a (possibly multithreaded) process receives a killing signal

-- 
ldv

^ permalink raw reply related	[flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2019-09-13 19:37 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2019-09-02 12:38 [PATCH] ptrace.2: document PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO Dmitry V. Levin
2019-09-10 10:51 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2019-09-11 17:38   ` [PATCH] ptrace.2: document struct ptrace_syscall_info Dmitry V. Levin
2019-09-12  9:17     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2019-09-13 15:40       ` Dmitry V. Levin
2019-09-13 18:48         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2019-09-13 19:37           ` Dmitry V. Levin

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).