Re: Memory manipulator

2008-09-01 Thread Ghiora Drori
Hi, I assume this is relevant: :H. Peter Anvin writes: Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:35:29 +0100, James Pearson wrote: /proc/PID/environ currently truncates at 4096 characters, patch based on the /proc/PID/mem code. Does /proc/PID/mem even work? If I do `strace cat /proc/PID/

Re: Memory manipulator

2008-08-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Shachar Shemesh wrote: You can only use /proc/PID/mem if you are already attached to that process as a debugger. How interesting. Where is that documented? Google. I spent almost half an hour trying to figure that one out. It is, indeed, not documented anywhere I cou

Re: Memory manipulator

2008-08-31 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: At least in theory this should work. I say in theory, because I've been getting an error on my Ubuntu trying to open /proc/$PID/mem by YMMV: $ cat /proc/$PID/mem | hexdump -c > before $ cat /proc/$PID/mem | hexdump -c> after You can only use /pr

Re: Memory manipulator

2008-08-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: At least in theory this should work. I say in theory, because I've been getting an error on my Ubuntu trying to open /proc/$PID/mem by YMMV: $ cat /proc/$PID/mem | hexdump -c > before $ cat /proc/$PID/mem | hexdump -c> after You can only use /proc/PID/mem if you are alre

Re: Memory manipulator

2008-08-30 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Noam Rathaus wrote: Hi, I have been using Cheat Engine (http://www.cheatengine.org/) to manipulate the memory of applications on Windows for quite some time - mainly useful for testing software for quirks and bugs. I was wondering whether someone knew of a equivalent program for Linux? I a

Re: Memory manipulator

2008-08-30 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi Tzafrir, One of the abilities of Cheat Engine - beside being a games cheating machine, is to look for values in the memory, then search again for values, and leave only those that matched the previous set, etc As well as start of with an unknown value, and only look for those that increased, d

Re: Memory manipulator

2008-08-30 Thread sara fink
I think you are looking for shmtool. Here is a link: http://tldp.org/LDP/lpg/node73.html On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Noam Rathaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Cheat Engine (http://www.cheatengine.org/) to manipulate > the > memory of applications on Windows for quite

Re: Memory manipulator

2008-08-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 07:55:32AM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Cheat Engine (http://www.cheatengine.org/) to manipulate > the > memory of applications on Windows for quite some time - mainly useful for > testing software for quirks and bugs. > > I was wondering wheth