Debian Bug report logs - #122383
manpages-dev: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Johan Walles <johan@appeal.se>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: manpages-dev: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:22:21 +0100

Package: manpages-dev
Version: 1.39-1.1
Severity: normal

Do 'man ptrace' on an IA64.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.  At the
very bottom, the page says "Linux 2.2.10".

The page should document the 2.4 ptrace call.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: ia64
Kernel: Linux one 2.4.7-ia64 #1 Tue Aug 7 21:03:33 MDT 2001 ia64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
ii  manpages                      1.39-1.1   Man pages about using a Linux syst

Message #10 received at 122383@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Johan Walles <johan@appeal.se>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <122383@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: manpages-dev: Some details

Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:45:32 +0100

Package: manpages-dev
Version: 1.39-1.1

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...

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: ia64
Kernel: Linux one 2.4.7-ia64 #1 Tue Aug 7 21:03:33 MDT 2001 ia64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
ii  manpages                      1.39-1.1   Man pages about using a Linux syst

Message #15 received at 122383-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

To: 122383-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:18:25 +0100

Hi!

| Do 'man ptrace' on an IA64.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.  At the
| very bottom, the page says "Linux 2.2.10".

This only reflects the first occurence of the function.

| The page should document the 2.4 ptrace call.

Please tell me what's wrong with the content of the manpage if you
believe something is wrong there.

Regards,

	Joey

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Message #20 received at 122383@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Johan Walles <johan.walles@appeal.se>

To: 122383@bugs.debian.org

Cc: joey@infodrom.org

Subject: Re: Bug#122383 acknowledged by developer (Re: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2)

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:01:08 +0100

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 //Johan

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #122383: manpages-dev: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2,
> which was filed against the manpages-dev package.
> 
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below.  If this explanation is
> unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate
> message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email.
> 
> Debian bug tracking system administrator
> (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
> 
> Received: (at 122383-done) by bugs.debian.org; 13 Dec 2001 10:27:16 +0000
> From joey@infodrom.org Thu Dec 13 04:27:16 2001
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> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:18:25 +0100
> From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
> To: 122383-done@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2
> Message-ID: <20011213101825.GY16072@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>
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> 
> Hi!
> 
> | Do 'man ptrace' on an IA64.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.  At the
> | very bottom, the page says "Linux 2.2.10".
> 
> This only reflects the first occurence of the function.
> 
> | The page should document the 2.4 ptrace call.
> 
> Please tell me what's wrong with the content of the manpage if you
> believe something is wrong there.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Joey
> 
> 

Message #27 received at 122383@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

To: Johan Walles <johan.walles@appeal.se>

Cc: 122383@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:04:59 +0100

reopen 122383
tags 122383 +moreinfo
severity 122383 wishlist
thanks

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.

Ok, understood now.

I can't help either, some kernel people are required.

Regards,

	Joey

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Message #36 received at 122383@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

To: debian-hppa@lists.debian.org

Cc: 122383@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 18:18:03 +0100

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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Message #41 received at 122383@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>

To: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

Cc: debian-hppa@lists.debian.org, debian-ia64@lists.debian.org.122383@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:56:06 -0800

I'm not sure why I received the attached mail.  I didn't think I'm
subscribed to debian-hppa but since the original mail mentions IA64,
I'll add my two cents: rather than "fixing" the man page, we should
just implement {GET,SET}{,FP}REGS.  There is no reason not to provide
them and there are clearly apps that could benefit from these
requests.  Just a small matter of programming...

	--david

>>>>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 18:18:03 +0100, Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> said:

  Martin> Can somebody of the HPPA team help and provide enough
  Martin> information to fix the manpage ptrace(2)?  Any help would be
  Martin> gladly appreciated.  A patch (against the version in
  Martin> unstable) would be the best

  Martin> 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.

Message #50 received at 122383-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

To: 122383-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: your bug -- manpages-dev: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:00:06 -0500

Does this bug still apply in recent manpages packages?

I have:
$ grep '2\.' <(man ptrace 2>&1)
Linux 2.6.6                       2004-05-27                         PTRACE(2)

Thanks.

-- 
Clear skies,
Justin

References

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/122383

Message #55 received at 122383@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Johan Walles <johan.walles@gmail.com>

To: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>, 122383@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#122383: your bug -- manpages-dev: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:45:21 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

2005/12/21, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>:
> Does this bug still apply in recent manpages packages?

Yes.  Although not to the same extent as before.

PTRACE_GETFPREGS still doesn't exist on ia64.  The man page implies it
does.  It's documented and the documentation says nothing about this
function not existing on some platforms.

The attached program builds and runs fine on ia32.  It doesn't even
build on ia64: "error: `PTRACE_GETFPREGS' undeclared".  Possibly it's
broken on other platforms as well, although the ia64 is the only
non-mainstream platform I have access to.

  Regards //Johan

[ptraceGetFpRegs.c (text/x-c, attachment)]

Message #64 received at 122383@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>

To: Johan Walles <johan.walles@gmail.com>, 122383@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

Subject: Re: Bug#122383: your bug -- manpages-dev: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:32:42 +0200

tags 122383 +confirmed
thanks

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:45:21AM +0100, Johan Walles wrote:
> 2005/12/21, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>:
> > Does this bug still apply in recent manpages packages?
> 
> Yes.  Although not to the same extent as before.
> 
> PTRACE_GETFPREGS still doesn't exist on ia64.  The man page implies it
> does.  It's documented and the documentation says nothing about this
> function not existing on some platforms.
> 
> The attached program builds and runs fine on ia32.  It doesn't even
> build on ia64: "error: `PTRACE_GETFPREGS' undeclared".  Possibly it's
> broken on other platforms as well, although the ia64 is the only
> non-mainstream platform I have access to.

This doesn't build either on ia64 today, with the same error.

And ptrace.2 doesn't mention such kind of function unavailability
(except arguments order change for sparc).

-- 
Simon Paillard

Message #71 received at 122383@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

To: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>, 122383@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Johan Walles <johan.walles@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

Subject: Re: Bug#122383: your bug -- manpages-dev: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:11:39 +0200

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> wrote:
> tags 122383 +confirmed
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:45:21AM +0100, Johan Walles wrote:
>> 2005/12/21, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>:
>> > Does this bug still apply in recent manpages packages?
>>
>> Yes.  Although not to the same extent as before.
>>
>> PTRACE_GETFPREGS still doesn't exist on ia64.  The man page implies it
>> does.  It's documented and the documentation says nothing about this
>> function not existing on some platforms.
>>
>> The attached program builds and runs fine on ia32.  It doesn't even
>> build on ia64: "error: `PTRACE_GETFPREGS' undeclared".  Possibly it's
>> broken on other platforms as well, although the ia64 is the only
>> non-mainstream platform I have access to.
>
> This doesn't build either on ia64 today, with the same error.
>
> And ptrace.2 doesn't mention such kind of function unavailability
> (except arguments order change for sparc).

For 3.44, I've added a note to the page to say that
PTRAGE_GETREGS
PTRAGE_SETREGS
PTRAGE_GETFPREGS
PTRAGE_SETFPREGS
are not available on all architectures.

Thanks,

Michael


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/

Message #80 received at 122383-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>

To: 122383-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#122383: fixed in manpages 3.44-1

Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:47:47 +0000

Source: manpages
Source-Version: 3.44-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 122383@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> (supplier of updated manpages package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Urgency: low
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     . getdomainname.2: these calls relate to NIS, not DNS (Closes: #295635)
     . proc.5: fix 'starttime' description of /proc/PID/stat (Closes: #675891)
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   * resolv.conf.5: Document IPv6 format for nameserver (Closes: #610036)
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