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Update libexecinfo man page for FreeBSD

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Ed Maste 2013-08-23 13:47:18 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: backtrace.3,v 1.4 2012/06/10 00:24:36 christos Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: backtrace.3,v 1.4 2012/06/10 00:24:36 christos Exp $
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\" .\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2012 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" Copyright (c) 2012 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved. .\" All rights reserved.
@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\" .\"
.Dd May 26, 2012 .Dd August 23, 2013
.Dt BACKTRACE 3 .Dt BACKTRACE 3
.Os .Os
.Sh NAME .Sh NAME
@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ on failure.
.Sh RETURN VALUES .Sh RETURN VALUES
The The
.Fn backtrace .Fn backtrace
function returns the number of elements tht were filled in the backtrace. function returns the number of elements that were filled in the backtrace.
The The
.Fn backtrace_symbols .Fn backtrace_symbols
and and
@ -133,7 +134,9 @@ Diagnostic output may also be produced by the ELF symbol lookup functions.
The The
.Fn backtrace .Fn backtrace
library of functions first appeared in library of functions first appeared in
.Nx 7.0 . .Nx 7.0
and
.Fx 10.0 .
.Sh BUGS .Sh BUGS
.Bl -enum .Bl -enum
.It .It
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.Ft size_t .Ft size_t
arguments. arguments.
.It .It
Since The
.Xr dladdr 3 .Fn backtrace_symbols
only deals with dynamic symbols, we need to find the symbols from the main functions currently rely on
portion of the program. .Xr procfs 5
For that we need to locate the executable, and we use procfs for to locate the executable.
finding it, which is not portable.
.El .El