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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:50:14 +0100
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On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 15:08 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:03:48AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 11:46 -0800, Jim Keniston wrote:
> > > 
> > >  discussed elsewhere. 
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointer...
> 
> :-)
> 
> Peter,
> I think Jim was referring to
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/systemtap/2007-q1/msg00571.html

That's a 2007 email from some obscure list... that's hardly something
that can be referenced to without link.

As previously stated, I think poking at a process's address space is an
utter no-go.