Author: emaste Date: Fri Aug 23 13:47:18 2013 New Revision: 254698 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/254698
Log: Update libexecinfo man page for FreeBSD Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL Modified: head/contrib/libexecinfo/backtrace.3 Modified: head/contrib/libexecinfo/backtrace.3 ============================================================================== --- head/contrib/libexecinfo/backtrace.3 Fri Aug 23 13:30:07 2013 (r254697) +++ head/contrib/libexecinfo/backtrace.3 Fri Aug 23 13:47:18 2013 (r254698) @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ .\" $NetBSD: backtrace.3,v 1.4 2012/06/10 00:24:36 christos Exp $ +.\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2012 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd May 26, 2012 +.Dd August 23, 2013 .Dt BACKTRACE 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ on failure. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn backtrace -function returns the number of elements tht were filled in the backtrace. +function returns the number of elements that were filled in the backtrace. The .Fn backtrace_symbols and @@ -133,7 +134,9 @@ Diagnostic output may also be produced b The .Fn backtrace library of functions first appeared in -.Nx 7.0 . +.Nx 7.0 +and +.Fx 10.0 . .Sh BUGS .Bl -enum .It @@ -150,10 +153,9 @@ instead of .Ft size_t arguments. .It -Since -.Xr dladdr 3 -only deals with dynamic symbols, we need to find the symbols from the main -portion of the program. -For that we need to locate the executable, and we use procfs for -finding it, which is not portable. +The +.Fn backtrace_symbols +functions currently rely on +.Xr procfs 5 +to locate the executable. .El _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
