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Diffstat (limited to 'usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc b/usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc index 575cea4a88..411dbb8aae 100644 --- a/usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc +++ b/usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ starting at the address .Fa address . It writes at most .Fa nbyte -of data. The +of data. +The .Fn Pwrite function is logically analogous to the .Xr pwrite 2 @@ -47,9 +48,10 @@ function. For live processes, this function is equivalent to writing to the /proc file system .Sy as -file for the process. For core files, it writes to the logical address -space of what was once the process and not the corresponding offset in -the on-disk file. ELF objects grabbed through +file for the process. +For core files, it writes to the logical address space of what was once the +process and not the corresponding offset in the on-disk file. +ELF objects grabbed through .Xr Pgrab_file 3PROC do not support being written to. .Pp @@ -70,7 +72,8 @@ Otherwise, it returns .Sy -1 and .Sy errno -is set to indicate an error. For the full list of errors see the +is set to indicate an error. +For the full list of errors see the .Sy DIAGNOSTICS section in .Xr proc 4 |