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Cc: Tofik Suleymanov <tofik@oxygen.az>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: reading process memory
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David Nugent wrote:
> 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
>
>
David,
looks like it is exactly what i need.I am going to dig more into ptrace.

Thank you,
Tofik Suleymanov