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Re: Accessing "u area" of a process

Villy Kruse

2004-11-29, 2:48 am

On 28 Nov 2004 16:59:48 -0800,
Mark <steven_mark_99@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I am talking about FreeBSD here and following is the u area structure
>

The usual way is to open and read from /dev/mem or /dev/kmem. The
lsof program and SystemV version of ps usualy do exactly that.

Villy