Accessing address space of a process through kld!!

[John-Mark Gurney]

Tanmay wrote this message on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 13:56 +0530:
> How do I access the address space ie text,data and stack of a (user
> level)process whose pid I know from my kld. for eg: Suppose 'vi' is running
> and I want to access its address space through my kld, then how do I do it?

You look up the process with pfind(9), and then you can use uio(9) to
transfer data into kernel space...  Don't forget to PROC_UNLOCK the
struct once you are done referencing it.

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