Re: [PATCH 3/3] ptrace.2: add description for PTRACE_{GET,SET}SIGMASK

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2014 - 05:28:22 EST


On 07/16/2013 10:19 AM, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> These two commands allow to examine and change mask of blocked signals.

Thanks, Andrey.

Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> man2/ptrace.2 | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
> index e74535e..08697ff 100644
> --- a/man2/ptrace.2
> +++ b/man2/ptrace.2
> @@ -356,6 +356,21 @@ If this flag is not set, signals are read from a per-thread queue.
> .in
> .PP
> .TP
> +.BR PTRACE_GETSIGMASK " (since Linux 3.11)"
> +.\" commit 29000caecbe87b6b66f144f72111f0d02fbbf0c1
> +Retrieve mask of blocked signals to the address
> +.I data.
> +The
> +.I addr
> +argument contains the size of mask.
> +.TP
> +.BR PTRACE_SETSIGMASK " (since Linux 3.11)"
> +Change mask of blocked signals from the address
> +.I data.
> +The
> +.I addr
> +argument contains the size of mask.
> +.TP
> .BR PTRACE_SETOPTIONS " (since Linux 2.4.6; see BUGS for caveats)"
> Set ptrace options from
> .IR data .
>


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