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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 4/7] Uprobes Implementation
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On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 09:00 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

> Well, I'm not in a position to argue line by line about the necessity
> or the cost of utrace low level guts, but this may represent the most
> practical engineering balance between functionality / modularity /
> undesirably intrusive modifications. 

How intrusive and non-modular is installing a DIE_INT3 notifier?