From: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 20:19:39 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: ptrace.2: mention PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO in RETURN VALUE section
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ptrace.2: mention PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO in RETURN VALUE section

Mirror the wording about PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO return value semantics
from "DESCRIPTION" section to "RETURN VALUE" section.

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Complements: fc91449cb "ptrace.2: Document PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO"
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
index 56dcbbf4bf..ffaf8db0d8 100644
--- a/man2/ptrace.2
+++ b/man2/ptrace.2
@@ -2327,8 +2327,11 @@ On success, the
 requests return the requested data (but see NOTES),
 the
 .B PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER
-request returns the number of instructions in the BPF program, and
-other requests return zero.
+request returns the number of instructions in the BPF program,
+the
+.B PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO
+request returns the number of bytes available to be written by the kernel,
+and other requests return zero.
 .PP
 On error, all requests return \-1, and
 .I errno