linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] : Is /proc/kcore still usefull and/or maintained ?

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:35:36 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Maxim <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] : Is /proc/kcore still usefull and/or maintained ?

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:04:50 +0200
Maxim <maximlevitsky@...il.com> wrote:


> Hi,
> 	Yes, you are right, you have different problem that I had
> 
> 	But why do you need llseek ?

I dont personnaly, but tools do need llseek.

> 
> 	Why not to mmap it ?
> 	It is natural thing to do with files that represent memory.

Because I dont want to rewrite gdb, file, and other various tools ?

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