Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7

From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Date: Sun Apr 17 2005 - 23:44:18 EST


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).

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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