Re: [PATCH 4/4] 'catch syscall' feature -- Build system, documentation and testcase

["Sérgio Durigan Júnior" <sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 22:53 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= Durigan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FAnior?= <sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> > index 261d1c7..3641fff 100644
> > --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> > +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> > @@ -3635,6 +3635,12 @@ A failed Ada assertion.
> >  A call to @code{exec}.  This is currently only available for HP-UX
> >  and @sc{gnu}/Linux.
> >  
> > +@item syscall
> > +@itemx syscall @var{syscall name}
> > +@cindex break on call to/return from a system call
> > +A call to/return from a @code{syscall} -- similar to the @code{strace}
> > +utility.
> 
> ...this is not really a user documentation.  Please describe the
> feature instead of sending the reader to look for external
> documentation of an unrelated utility, which, btw, is available only
> on some versions of Unix, but not on others.
> 
> At the very least, we should explain what is @var{syscall name}.  An
> example of usage and typical GDB output get bonus points.

I will fix this. Thanks.

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Sérgio Durigan Júnior
Linux on Power Toolchain - Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - LTC
IBM Brazil