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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard F Weber <rfweber@link.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Hopefully a simple question on /proc/pid/mem
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:00:36 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104301457010.5737-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010430195007.F26638@redhat.com>


On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> > 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.

I wonder what's wrong with reading from /proc/<pid>/mem, though - it's
using the same code as ptrace.

Al, considering adding /proc/<pid>/{regs,fpregs,ctl} and moving ptrace()
entirely to userland...

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-30 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-30 18:17 Richard F Weber
2001-04-30 18:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-04-30 19:00   ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2001-04-30 19:02     ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2001-04-30 19:26       ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 19:26         ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2001-04-30 19:44           ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 21:58       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-01  1:13         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-05-01  9:36           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-01 15:16             ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-04-30 19:13   ` Richard F Weber

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