On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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 ;) all right, that makes sense, he just doesn't mention that. thanks. rday -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/