Re: PaX MPROTECT gdb and software breakpoints

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On May 22, 10:36am, bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: PaX MPROTECT gdb and software breakpoints

| I occasionally need to gdb-attach to a running process (usually a daemon)
| to try to understand what's going on. I think it's important to keep
| the ability to attach to a running process, which has not been
| started in a specific way before.

This only affects breakpoints; if we want to fix breakpoints, we can
at the cost of weakening MPROTECT.

christos