How do you find the user structure?

[James Logan III]

In article <9338 at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> root at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US
(The Beach Bum) writes:
# If you ARE on a system where the ublock is not contiguous, you at least

... Like mine...

# should be able to determine the method used to store that one page.

Yeah, sure.  I spent two weeks doing this once.  I finally got
ahold of the sources for the "ps" command and I still can't
determine the method.  (Talk about spaghetti code... Yuck!)

I didn't look at the sources for very long, but it wasn't
immediately apparent.  I'll look at the source again this
weekend maybe and explain the method that my version of
System V uses.

# Look at the page table entries [ god willing ... ], and once you have
# figured out how you got that one page, you should be able to figure out
# how to get the rest of them.

			-Jim


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