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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 03:02:14 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Mapping a piece of one process' addrspace to another?
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:

> 
> 
> You are reinventing the wheel.
> man ptrace (see PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}{TEXT,DATA} and PTRACE_{ATTACH,CONT,DETACH})

With ptrace data will be copied twice. As far as I understood, Jeremy
wants to avoid that. 

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