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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-28 17:36:26 +1300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-28 17:38:04 +1300 |
| commit | fec74bb1aa5782a32c47bb4ceb158c2921448704 (patch) | |
| tree | 56817514651a96caac5348a0c6e499f9803f7eff | |
| parent | a73a0781542b98a5b3d8771163cd181e4c14005a (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-fec74bb1aa5782a32c47bb4ceb158c2921448704.tar.gz | |
ptrace.2: srcfix: add info about PTRACE_SEIZE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/ptrace.2 | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2 index fc8321888d..f05372aa06 100644 --- a/man2/ptrace.2 +++ b/man2/ptrace.2 @@ -813,6 +813,17 @@ can not be attached via .BR PTRACE_ATTACH . .TP .BR PTRACE_SEIZE " (since Linux 3.4)" +.\" +.\" Noted by Dmitry Levin: +.\" +.\" PTRACE_SEIZE was introduced by commit v3.1-rc1~308^2~28, but +.\" it had to be used along with a temporary flag PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL, +.\" which was removed later by commit v3.4-rc1~109^2~20. +.\" +.\" That is, [before] v3.4 we had a test mode of PTRACE_SEIZE API, +.\" which was not compatible with the current PTRACE_SEIZE API introduced +.\" in Linux 3.4. +.\" Attach to the process specified in .IR pid , making it a tracee of the calling process. |