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

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 02:36:28 EST


On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:04:50 +0200
Maxim <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> 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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