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incomplete si_codes for waitid(2) [patch available]

PATCH Gokdeniz Karadag 2 participants 2 messages Apr 16, 2009 – Apr 21, 2009 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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Hi,

In a program I was debugging, waitid(2) returned a strange value in siginfo_t structure's si_code field. It was different that those stated in the man page for waitid(2) [ waitid(2) man page is the same as wait(2) ].

When I looked at the relevant file "/usr/include/bits/siginfo.h" there were two more values for si_code:

CLD_DUMPED, /* Child terminated abnormally. */
CLD_TRAPPED, /* Traced child has trapped. */

I was getting CLD_DUMPED value along with core dumps so I state that as an example in the patch. I'm not sure about how a process can get CLD_TRAPPED but I include it for completeness' sake.

The diff applies to today's git version.

============================== diff ======================

man2/wait.2 +4 -0
index c95ff2c..4028fae 100644
@@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ Set to one of:
 .BR _exit (2));
 .B CLD_KILLED
 (child killed by signal);
+.B CLD_DUMPED
+(child terminated abnormally, ie. core dump);
+.B CLD_TRAPPED
+(child has trapped while being traced);
 .B CLD_STOPPED
 (child stopped by signal); or
 .B CLD_CONTINUED

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Hi,

Quoted 9 lines · Gokdeniz Karadag

Hi,

In a program I was debugging, waitid(2) returned a strange value in siginfo_t structure's si_code field. It was different that those stated in the man page for waitid(2) [ waitid(2) man page is the same as wait(2) ].

When I looked at the relevant file "/usr/include/bits/siginfo.h" there were two more values for si_code:

Quoted 8 lines

 CLD_DUMPED,                   /* Child terminated abnormally.  */ CLD_TRAPPED,                  /* Traced child has trapped.  */

I was getting CLD_DUMPED value along with core dumps so I state that as an example in the patch.  I'm not sure about how a process can get CLD_TRAPPED but I include it for completeness' sake.

The diff applies to today's git version.

Thanks for spotting that. I tweaked your patch a little to make the text as follows:

[[
.B CLD_DUMPED
(child killed by signal, and dumped core);
.B CLD_TRAPPED
(traced child has trapped); or
]]

The change will be in man-pages-3.22.

Thanks,

Michael

Quoted 25 lines

============================== diff ======================

man2/wait.2 +0 -0
index c95ff2c..4028fae 100644
@@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ Set to one of:
  .BR _exit (2));

 .B CLD_KILLED
 (child killed by signal);
+.B CLD_DUMPED

man2/wait.2 +3 -0
+(child terminated abnormally, ie. core dump);
+.B CLD_TRAPPED
+(child has trapped while being traced);

 .B CLD_STOPPED
 (child stopped by signal); or
 .B CLD_CONTINUED

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