Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7

Davide Libenzi
2005-04-18T05:01:56Z

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.

Indeed, look at the systr_pmem_read() and systr_pmem_write() functions:

http://www.xmailserver.org/sysctr.html

- Davide