Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:16:41 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM |
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> > After reviewing the /proc/kcore and kclist issues, I've decided that I'm > > no longer prepared to even _think_ about supporting /proc/kcore on ARM - > > I suspect we should just remove it altogether. > > Does anybody actually _use_ /proc/kcore? It was one of those "cool > feature" things, but I certainly haven't ever used it myself except for > testing, and it's historically often been broken after various kernel > infrastructure updates, and people haven't complained.. > > Comments?
I've used it on a few rare occasions for last-ditch data recovery before, E.G. an application crashed that had a text file held in RAM that wasn't ever written to disk. Poking through /proc/kcore could allow it's recovery.
Probably not a sufficent reason to keep it :-).
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