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* Dumping memory of a running process?
@ 2001-03-13 20:44 Ian Stirling
  2001-03-13 21:53 ` Mike Harrold
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ian Stirling @ 2001-03-13 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Is there a way to dump the memory of any process without stopping, or 
modifying it?

Obviously normally stopping it would be the right thing to do, but
is it possible, and if so, is there a handy tool?


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* Re: Dumping memory of a running process?
  2001-03-13 20:44 Dumping memory of a running process? Ian Stirling
@ 2001-03-13 21:53 ` Mike Harrold
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mike Harrold @ 2001-03-13 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ian Stirling; +Cc: linux-kernel

> 
> Is there a way to dump the memory of any process without stopping, or 
> modifying it?
> 
> Obviously normally stopping it would be the right thing to do, but
> is it possible, and if so, is there a handy tool?

fork() and raise(SIGABRT) in the child does the trick. Of course this
only works if you have access to the source code.

/Mike

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