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Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by tbirdz on Saturday September 05, 2015 @04:14PM (#10175929)
> I'm having a very hard time imagining there exists even a single program out there that depends on being able to read the memory contents of a program that ran before itself.

gdb, when using it to attach to an already running process.

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Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by 0x0 on Saturday September 05, 2015 @04:16PM (#10175935)
Not exactly, GDB would be accessing memory that is still allocated. I think the OP was referring to accessing memory contents from deallocated regions. Also we're talking GPU memory here, for the most part. :)
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