From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 8 03:05:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C9C17078E for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 01:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidn@datalinktech.com.au) Received: from customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony7.iinet.net.au (customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony7.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A49D43D53 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 01:05:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidn@datalinktech.com.au) Received: from 203-206-162-119.perm.iinet.net.au (HELO mail.datalinktech.com.au) ([203.206.162.119]) by customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony7.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 08 Jun 2006 09:05:12 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.05,218,1146412800"; d="scan'208"; a="298694735:sNHT1607693368" Received: from [192.168.4.232] ([192.168.4.232]) by mail.datalinktech.com.au with esmtp; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:05:04 +1000 id 0018D947.448777C0.00008B89 Message-ID: <448777B1.5030308@datalinktech.com.au> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:04:49 +1000 From: David Nugent User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tofik Suleymanov References: <4486A111.6020300@oxygen.az> <4486EFC8.6080601@oxygen.az> In-Reply-To: <4486EFC8.6080601@oxygen.az> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading process memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:05:17 -0000 Tofik Suleymanov wrote: > Thank you for brief and altogether extensive explanation of the > case.The thing i wanted to do is to read let's say portions of memory > where .bss and .data block of a running program reside. > > is that possible ? Yes. Debuggers offer this functionality, for example. man 2 ptrace Regards, David