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Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 12:35:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: About reading /proc/*/mem
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On 1 May 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> > Unfortunately, ptrace() probobally isn't going to allow me to do that.  
> > So my next question is does opening /proc/*/mem force the child process 
> > to stop on every interrupt (just like ptrace?)
> 
> 
> The not stopping the child should be the major difference between
> /proc/*/mem and ptrace.

Could somebody tell me what would one do with data read from memory
of process that is currently running?

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