Re: [PATCH] this makes /proc/kcore an ELF core dump

David Howells (David.Howells@nexor.co.uk)
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 12:25:08 GMT


> And what happens with the stuff actually relying on /proc/kcore being what
> it is now? lsof, for one.

In what way does it actually depend? The position of the real data in the file
does not change. In both the old kcore style and the new, the core file header
takes up less than one page, and so in both cases the actual reflection of
kernel-space begins one page into the file.

David Howells

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