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diff --git a/man3/getcontext.3 b/man3/getcontext.3 index 754f425ec..217f34ed1 100644 --- a/man3/getcontext.3 +++ b/man3/getcontext.3 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" -.TH GETCONTEXT 3 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH GETCONTEXT 3 2020-12-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME getcontext, setcontext \- get or set the user context .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -95,22 +95,25 @@ that includes the calling thread's machine registers. The function .BR getcontext () initializes the structure -pointed at by +pointed to by .I ucp to the currently active context. .PP The function .BR setcontext () restores the user context -pointed at by +pointed to by .IR ucp . A successful call does not return. The context should have been obtained by a call of .BR getcontext (), or .BR makecontext (3), -or passed as third argument to a signal -handler. +or received as the third argument to a signal +handler (see the discussion of the +.BR SA_SIGINFO +flag in +.BR sigaction (2)). .PP If the context was obtained by a call of .BR getcontext (), @@ -203,9 +206,10 @@ instead. .BR sigprocmask (2), .BR longjmp (3), .BR makecontext (3), -.BR sigsetjmp (3) +.BR sigsetjmp (3), +.BR signal (7) .SH COLOPHON -This page is part of release 5.09 of the Linux +This page is part of release 5.10 of the Linux .I man-pages project. A description of the project, |