Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:15:14AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>   
>
> Do you want to have debugging tools to examine internal data structures of
> the kernel implementation, _without_ being closely tied to it? Sorry, that
> looks like a contradiction.
>   

User space memory maps are *not* that closely tied to the kernel.  Or
nothing (user applications) would work from one release to the next.  So
at least where pmap is used for debugging *user* programs, I think a
stable API makes sense.

    -- Garrett

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