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Re:How does `cd` work? by gowld on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:48PM (#16495493)
Allowing any process to arbitrarily modify the state of another process would be a disaster for stability and security.
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Re:How does `cd` work? by colejohnson66 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:19PM (#16498422)
Isn’t that what a debugger does?
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Re:How does `cd` work? by Someone on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:47AM (#16500023)
Yes, and it is a disaster for stability and security. The designers of dtrace worked hard on the stability part. See, for example, the section on DIF safety in https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall04/cos518/p....
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