On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 22:54 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > > > I'm also curious to why we can't modify text code that is also mapped as > > read/write. > > > > If text code is mapped read/write then on memory pressure the page gets > written to the disk. Hence breakpoints inserted may end up being in the > disk copy modifying the actual copy. > > OK, could you put a comment about that too. Thanks, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>