<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>In any case ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKDATA, ) should be left as fallback, at least for attaching.</div><div>Your debugger might CAP_SYS_PTRACE, that would allow it read memory of an process running with different UID, and it won't be possible with /proc/<pid>/mem.</div>
<div>It is also very popular for LSM's or hardening patches floating around to disable access to process memory via proc at all.</div><div>So I see that more as optimization rather than replacement.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Cheers,</div><div>/Piotr</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-25 10:31 GMT+01:00 Matthew Gardiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mg11@csr.com" target="_blank">mg11@csr.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Folks,<br>
<br>
Is there a good reason why the DoReadMemory function of<br>
Linux/ProcessMonitor.cpp is implemented using multiple calls of<br>
<br>
ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKDATA, ...) ?<br>
<br>
An easier, and less CPU-intensive way is to read the memory using the proc<br>
filesystem. The inferior's memory will be available in the file<br>
<br>
/proc/<pid>/mem<br>
<br>
int fd = open("/proc/<pid>/mem", O_RDONLY);<br>
ssize_t bytes = read(fd, buf, count);<br>
<br>
The read-of-procfs just seems more succinct to me, so I wondered what the<br>
rationale was for not using this.<br>
<br>
Discussion welcomed,<br>
Matt<br>
<br>
<br>
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