Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7

Nicholas Miell
2005-04-18T04:55:44Z

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?

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Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>