Help getting pointer to a u structure of a process
Boyd Roberts
boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au
Fri Mar 8 10:02:35 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar06.203225.20019 at lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> bridej at prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Jim Bride) writes:
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> [dubious thread about finding some other processes u-area deleted ]
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You should first ask yourself whether this is a good idea.
If you really want to, some UNIX kernels have a uaccess() call
that maps in another processes u-area at some known kernel virtual
address. Other implementations may return you a pointer to it.
Let's be careful out there :-)
Boyd Roberts boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au
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