Subject: Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7
From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: Takashi Ikebe <ikebe.takashi@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:55:36 -0700
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On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 00:42 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:19:57PM +0900, Takashi Ikebe wrote:
> > GDB based approach seems not fit to our requirements. GDB(ptrace) based 
> > functions are basically need to be done when target process is stopping.
> > In addition to that current PTRACE_PEEK/POKE* allows us to copy only a 
> > *word* size...
> 
> While true, this is easily fixable.  There is even an interface
> precedent on OpenBSD (and possibly other platforms as well).
> 

If we're going to be stealing ideas for debugging interfaces from other
operating systems, could we steal from Solaris instead of anything
ptrace-based?

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>

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