Aliasing text and data segments of a process

[Michael J. Young]

In article <11476 at brl-adm.ARPA> rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>(1) Text and Data glommed together with only limits protection.
> ...
>Each format has its own advantages and drawbacks. If you want to set
>breakpoints in code, you must use the first type.

Actually, setting breakpoints is no problem even with the other three types.
That's what the ptrace(2) system call is for.  I suppose you could even
use ptrace() to "poke" an entire function into the text space.  The problem
arises when you want to change the size of the text region; ptrace() doesn't
let you do that.
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