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From: Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org>
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Subject: Re: Dumping memory of a running process?
To: root@mauve.demon.co.uk (Ian Stirling)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:53:11 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <200103132044.UAA24829@mauve.demon.co.uk> from "Ian Stirling" at Mar 13, 2001 08:44:18 PM
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> 
> 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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