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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:39:56 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)
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On 01/15/2010 11:50 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> As previously stated, I think poking at a process's address space is an
> utter no-go.
>    

Why not reserve an address space range for this, somewhere near the top 
of memory?  It doesn't have to be populated if it isn't used.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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