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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Help getting pointer to a u structure of a process
Keywords: process, user structure
Message-ID: <2033@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au>
Date: 8 Mar 91 00:02:35 GMT
References: <1991Mar06.203225.20019@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
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In article <1991Mar06.203225.20019@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> bridej@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Jim Bride) writes:
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> [dubious thread about finding some other processes u-area deleted ]
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You should first ask yourself whether this is a good idea.

If you really want to, some UNIX kernels have a uaccess() call
that maps in another processes u-area at some known kernel virtual
address.  Other implementations may return you a pointer to it.

Let's be careful out there :-)


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''