Add documentations for the 3 undocumented ptrace calls.
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.\" $NetBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.26 2005/01/09 17:41:19 christos Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.27 2006/03/06 15:47:42 christos Exp $
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.\"
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.\" This file is in the public domain.
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.Dd January 9, 2005
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.Dd March 6, 2006
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.Dt PTRACE 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Li \-1
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and set
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.Va errno .
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.It PT_DUMPCORE
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Makes the process specified in the
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.Fa pid
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pid generate a core dump.
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The
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.Fa addr
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argument should contain the name of the core file to be generated
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and the
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.Fa data
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argument should contain the length of the core filename.
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This
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.Nm
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call currently does not stop the child process so it can generate
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inconsistent data.
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.It PT_LWPINFO
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Returns information about the specific thread from the process specified
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in the
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.Fa pid
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argument.
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The
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.Fa addr
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argument should contain a
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.Dq Li "struct ptrace_lwpinfo"
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defined as:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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struct ptrace_io_desc {
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lwpid_t pl_lwpid;
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int pl_event;
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};
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Where
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.Fa pl_lwpid
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contains the thread to get info for.
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Upon return
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.Fa pl_event
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contains the event that stopped the thread.
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Possible
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values are:
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.Bl -tag -width 30n
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.It Dv PL_EVENT_NONE
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.It Dv PL_EVENT_SIGNAL
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Fa data
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argument should contain
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.Dq Li "sizeof(struct ptrace_lwpinfo)" .
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.It PT_SYSCALL
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Stops a process before and after executing each system call.
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.El
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.Pp
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Additionally, the following requests exist but are
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