Re: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2
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
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