On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 06:10:20PM +0000, Jonathan Haslam wrote:
> I think it would be good to mention in the revised pmap man page
> that it is bad to cross the streams in such a way. People get
> used to forcing procbin tools and having a target of pmap
> dump out unexpectedly could be shocking to say the least.
Forcing the proc tools is a bad habit to have. If there weren't any
side effects, we wouldn't have made it a separate option. Note that
the proc(1) man page does state that:
Caution should be exercised when using the -F flag. Imposing
two controlling processes on one victim process can lead to
chaos. Safety is assured only if the primary controlling
process, typically a debugger, has stopped the victim pro-
cess and the primary controlling process is doing nothing at
the moment of application of the proc tool in question.
This text obviously should have been copied to the new man page when
we pulled pmap out of proc(1). (Filed bug 6353091)
Dave
