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Comment by aaronmdjones

4 months ago

It used to, until Oracle bought it out. It is not usable for changes to the ABI though; only kernel functions. The use case was hot-patching a running kernel to fix a security vulnerability in e.g. a device driver, but it could be used to modify almost any function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice

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