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Replacing ptrace()

Replacing ptrace()

Posted Mar 23, 2010 21:03 UTC (Tue) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
Parent article: Replacing ptrace()

Ptrace() is slow. New API would hopefully be also more efficient than the
ptrace() peeking & poking of the other process over separate syscalls (one
example of possible user could be also libunwind:
http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/man/libunwind-ptrace(3).html).


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