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 -- 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>