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From: jum@cosmo.UUCP (Uwe Mager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: writing on the text segment
Message-ID: <455@cosmo.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 06:44:30 GMT
References: <11476@brl-adm.ARPA> <207@sdti.UUCP> <2624@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <10376@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: jum@cosmo.UUCP (Jens-Uwe Mager)
Organization: CosmoNet Kommunikationssysteme GmbH, D-300 Hannover, West Germany
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Posted: Sat Jan 30 07:44:30 1988

In article <10376@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>
>This last is simply a bug: the second process should get a new copy
>of the executable, since the first is being used for something
>else; i.e., a shared-text executable that is being traced should
>automatically become unshared.  Too, ptrace is a horrible interface.

At least in SVR3 they have fixed that I think. Regarding the ptrace stuff,
in SVR3 there happen to be a lot of hooks for a /proc interface. Is there
a file system availiable using that ?
-- 
Jens-Uwe Mager
jum@focus.UUCP || jum@cosmo.UUCP