Module Name: src
Committed By: jruoho
Date: Wed Apr 28 13:23:02 UTC 2010
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man2: ucontext.2
Log Message:
Improvements to markup.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.3 -r1.4 src/share/man/man2/ucontext.2
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Index: src/share/man/man2/ucontext.2
diff -u src/share/man/man2/ucontext.2:1.3 src/share/man/man2/ucontext.2:1.4
--- src/share/man/man2/ucontext.2:1.3 Wed Apr 30 13:10:53 2008
+++ src/share/man/man2/ucontext.2 Wed Apr 28 13:23:02 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: ucontext.2,v 1.3 2008/04/30 13:10:53 martin Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: ucontext.2,v 1.4 2010/04/28 13:23:02 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd June 13, 2001
+.Dd April 28, 2010
.Dt UCONTEXT 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -36,17 +36,21 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In ucontext.h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm ucontext_t
+The
+.Vt ucontext_t
is a structure type which is used to describe the context of a
thread of control within the execution of a process.
+A thread's context includes its stack, saved registers, and list of
+blocked signals.
.Pp
-.Nm ucontext_t
-includes the following members:
+The
+.Vt ucontext_t
+structure includes the following members:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-ucontext_t * uc_link
-sigset_t uc_sigmask
-stack_t uc_stack
-mcontext_t uc_mcontext
+ucontext_t *uc_link
+sigset_t uc_sigmask
+stack_t uc_stack
+mcontext_t uc_mcontext
.Ed
.Pp
The
@@ -57,7 +61,9 @@
has returned.
If
.Fa uc_link
-is a null pointer, then the context is the main context,
+is a
+.Dv NULL
+pointer, then the context is the main context,
and the process will exit with an exit status of 0 upon return.
.Pp
The
