From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044AE8D0040 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:59:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:57:49 +0000 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 resend 0/12] enable writing to /proc/pid/mem Message-ID: <20110323145748.GA22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1300891441-16280-1-git-send-email-wilsons@start.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1300891441-16280-1-git-send-email-wilsons@start.ca> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Stephen Wilson Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Michel Lespinasse , Andi Kleen , Rik van Riel , KOSAKI Motohiro , Matt Mackall , David Rientjes , Nick Piggin , Andrea Arcangeli , Mel Gorman , Hugh Dickins , x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:43:49AM -0400, Stephen Wilson wrote: > Hello, > > This is a resend[1] of a patch series that implements safe writes to > /proc/pid/mem. Such functionality is useful as it gives debuggers a simple and > efficient mechanism to manipulate a process' address space. Memory can be read > and written using single calls to pread(2) and pwrite(2) instead of iteratively > calling into ptrace(2). It's in local queue already, along with other procfs fixes; I'm going to push it today, with several more procfs race fixes added. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org