[lldb-dev] Critique of Linux DoReadMemory implementation

[Matthew Gardiner]

Folks,

Is there a good reason why the DoReadMemory function of
Linux/ProcessMonitor.cpp is implemented using multiple calls of

ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKDATA, ...) ?

An easier, and less CPU-intensive way is to read the memory using the proc
filesystem. The inferior's memory will be available in the file

/proc/<pid>/mem

int fd = open("/proc/<pid>/mem", O_RDONLY);
ssize_t bytes = read(fd, buf, count);

The read-of-procfs just seems more succinct to me, so I wondered what the
rationale was for not using this.

Discussion welcomed,
Matt



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