C programming question

John Wildberger wildberger-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 22 14:58:56 UTC 2003


On December 22, 2003 08:57 am, Greg Franks wrote:

> Two words:>
> man mem (physical memory)
> (or man kmem (kernel virtual memory)).
>   ..greg
>
> You have to be root to poke around.  In the good ole days of Unix, the
> `ps' command actually opened /dev/kmem and looked at the bytes
> directly.

Could I ask you to expand on your two words a little bit by using the info in 
the man page in a concrete way, e.g show me how to access physical memory at 
address 0x200 to 0x205.  
Thanks,
John

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