From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751548AbXCVGgI (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:36:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752217AbXCVGgI (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:36:08 -0400 Received: from www.cosmosbay.com ([86.65.150.131]:46131 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751548AbXCVGgF (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:36:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:35:36 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet To: Maxim Cc: Andrew Morton , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , David Howells , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] : Is /proc/kcore still usefull and/or maintained ? Message-Id: <20070322073536.0fce422a.dada1@cosmosbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200703220204.51146.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> References: <200703211840.53242.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <200703220128.18610.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <20070322005310.03be8637.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <200703220204.51146.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (gw1.cosmosbay.com [86.65.150.130]); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:35:41 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:04:50 +0200 Maxim 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 ?