Well ptrace connects, but getting the data out is what seems to be the really tough part. I've seen some examples of opening up the /proc/pid/mem file just using the

.................
int addr=0x<some memory address>;
char buffer[255];

proc_file=open ("/proc/pid/mem",O_RDONLY);
lseek(proc_file,addr,SEEK_SET);
read (proc_file,buffer,sizeof(buffer));
.................

But then the system complains about "No Such Process". I know the process is working and this fails as both the user running the target process, as well as root. I'm also using a 2.2.16 kernel stock from RH7.0 (but I didn't think that would really matter). I don't need register access (at least not yet).

The only other thing I'm wondering is if there is some permission that must be granted by the target process, but I've already tried the ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) line.

Thanks.

--Rich

Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:17:13PM -0400, Richard F Weber wrote:

Hopefully this is a simple question.  I'm trying to work on an external 
debugger that can bind to an external process, and open up memory 
locations on the heap to allow reading of data.

Now I've tried using ptrace(), mmap() & lseek/read all with no success.  
The closest I've been able to get is to use ptrace() to do an attach to 
the target process, but couldn't read much of anything from it.


ptrace is what other debuggers use.  It really ought to work.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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