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Name

/proc/pid/mem - memory

Description

/proc/ pid /mem This file can be used to access the pages of a process's memory through open(2), read(2), and lseek(2).

Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2).

See Also

  1. proc(5)