Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:41:35 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: QUESTION: modifying kernel functions in a running kernel |
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On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 05:24:02AM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> It there is a bug fix for Linux, it is much easier to patch the kernel > tree. SetFunction() was used on the Amiga for fixing bugs in the > closed source OS and for straping on new functionality.
That wasn't really the issue: the problem was that a lot of the important libraries were in ROM (that is, the code was in ROM; the library struct & jump table were copied to RAM IIRC, otherwise SetFunction() wouldn't've worked). Certainly exec.library, intuition.library, dos.library were all in ROM.
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