Module Name:    src
Committed By:   kamil
Date:           Sat Dec 10 20:02:07 UTC 2016

Modified Files:
        src/lib/libc/sys: ptrace.2

Log Message:
Remove outdated note in the PT_DUMPCORE call of the ptrace(2) man-page

Currently the PT_DUMPCORE call requires process to be stopped, therefore it
no longer need to warn about stoped tracee to generate consistent data.

Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.40 -r1.41 src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
diff -u src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2:1.40 src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2:1.41
--- src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2:1.40	Thu Nov 24 00:12:52 2016
+++ src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2	Sat Dec 10 20:02:07 2016
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.40 2016/11/24 00:12:52 kamil Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.41 2016/12/10 20:02:07 kamil Exp $
 .\"
 .\" This file is in the public domain.
 .Dd November 1, 2016
@@ -257,10 +257,6 @@ argument should contain the name of the 
 and the
 .Fa data
 argument should contain the length of the core filename.
-This
-.Nm
-call currently does not stop the child process so it can generate
-inconsistent data.
 .It Dv PT_LWPINFO
 Returns information about a thread from the list of threads for the
 process specified in the

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