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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kprobes for 2.5.50-bk2
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:54:47PM +0530, Vamsi Krishna S . wrote:

 > kprobes allows trapping at almost any kernel address, useful for
 > various kernel-hacking tasks, and building on for more
 > infrastructure.

This last part just got me thinking.
What stops someone for example using this to implement a binary
only replacement of the TCP/IP stack, or any other part of the
kernel for that matter ?

		Dave

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