Re: running "pmap" on a short-lived process?

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On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 04:11 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   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?
> 

you can run the thing in gdb and put a breakpoint on main ;)

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