More than one process executing the same object code

As I understand the article, a lot of the problems occur because more than one process might share the same page of object code (or 'text'), and so it's not possible to modify it without disrupting other processes that aren't being probed. But why not just require that a process being probed must have its own, unshared copy of the code it executes? On a modern system losing ten megabytes or so for a duplicate copy of your program and its shared libraries is not a big deal. Or perhaps some kind of copy-on-write system could be used for these pages, so only the one page modified to insert the probe need be unshared between processes?

I'm sure the kernel hackers have considered all this but the article doesn't mention why a simpler solution isn't possible.