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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man2 Note that si_addr may be inaccurate on certai...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/78aab83e856a
branches:  trunk
changeset: 778979:78aab83e856a
user:      jym <jym%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Mon Apr 23 17:44:39 2012 +0000

description:
Note that si_addr may be inaccurate on certain architectures.

Example: i386/amd64 alignement fault can drive to SIGBUS (when configured
so by process), however the faulty address returned by the CPU is not
reliable.

Bump date.

diffstat:

 share/man/man2/siginfo.2 |  9 +++++++--
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diffs (30 lines):

diff -r 3dec2ee25aef -r 78aab83e856a share/man/man2/siginfo.2
--- a/share/man/man2/siginfo.2  Mon Apr 23 17:19:00 2012 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man2/siginfo.2  Mon Apr 23 17:44:39 2012 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: siginfo.2,v 1.5 2010/07/26 12:50:52 christos Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: siginfo.2,v 1.6 2012/04/23 17:44:39 jym Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003 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 July 26, 2010
+.Dd April 23, 2012
 .Dt SIGINFO 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -280,6 +280,11 @@
 .Fa si_trap
 contains a hardware specific reason.
 .Pp
+For some architectures
+the value of
+.Fa si_addr
+may be inaccurate.
+.Pp
 For
 .Dv SIGPOLL
 the



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