Re: [PATCH v2 resend 0/12] enable writing to /proc/pid/mem

[Stephen Wilson]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 02:57:49PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> 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.

Ah, OK.  I had no idea.  Thanks so much!


-- 
steve

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