On 6/7/06, Tofik Suleymanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, folks
I believe that it is possible to read contents of the memory
used/utilized by a process (assuming right privileges).
First i've tried to do this through procfs by reading 'mem' property of
the given process, but no success.
May
Hello!
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Tofik Suleymanov wrote:
I believe that it is possible to read contents of the memory used/utilized
by
a process (assuming right privileges).
Yes, procfs allows it to user with the process's UID (or root).
First i've tried to do this through procfs by reading 'mem
James Riendeau wrote:
I'm going to anticipate your next question, and say that if you're not
the parent, you will have to "attach" to the process. How that's
done? I don't know, probably through a system call to ptrace or
writing to the procfs ctl directory. I'm speaking through erudite
kno
I'm going to anticipate your next question, and say that if you're
not the parent, you will have to "attach" to the process. How that's
done? I don't know, probably through a system call to ptrace or
writing to the procfs ctl directory. I'm speaking through erudite
knowledge rather than
Ahh. I think I goofed slightly. I think your application has to be
the parent of the running process to get at that property. See:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=366888&seqNum=10
James Riendeau
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> > I believe that it is possible to read contents of the memory used/
> > utilized by a process (assuming right privileges).
> > First i've tried to do this through procfs by reading 'mem'
> > property of the given process, but no success.
> > Maybe there is another way of doing such things ?
How are you defining "assuming right privileges"? The only way
you're going to be able to read another processes address space is in
the kernel. Even a process running as root is not able to read
another process's data. One of the principle responsibilities of the
OS is to manage the pri
