Re: About reading /proc/*/mem

Alexander Viro
2001-05-01T16:35:29Z

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?