Re: Dumping memory of a running process?

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> Is there a way to dump the memory of any process without stopping, or
> modifying it?
>
> Obviously normally stopping it would be the right thing to do, but
> is it possible, and if so, is there a handy tool?

fork() and raise(SIGABRT) in the child does the trick. Of course this
only works if you have access to the source code.

/Mike
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