perhaps i'm missing the point here but, for those of you who have a copy of robert love's kernel book, on p. 260, he demonstrates the use of "pmap" to examine a process' address space. but he does it on a trivial example: int main() [ return 0; } he then runs the command: $ cat /proc/1426/maps where 1426 is apparently the PID of the sample process. but how is it that he can check that process when it would run and finish almost immediately? or am i misreading something? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://www.fsdev.dreamhosters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/