Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > You are reinventing the wheel.
> > man ptrace (see PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}{TEXT,DATA} and PTRACE_{ATTACH,CONT,DETACH})
>
> With ptrace data will be copied twice. As far as I understood, Jeremy
> wants to avoid that.
The the only way left would be to mmap a file. The second process could
mmap the same file to put data.I believe the buffers holding the data
would be shared between the two processes.
How the first process detects that I don't know (semaphore? signal?).
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