Retrieving the memory map of its own process in OS X 10.5/10.6

Question

In Linux, the easiest way to look at a process\' memory map is looking at /proc/PID/maps, giving something like this:

08048000-08056000 r-xp 00000000         


        

Answer 1

Take a look at this thread from 2007 on the Darwin-kernel mailing list. In a nutshell, your choices are to popen vmmap (which is setgid appropriately) or use the Mach VM region APIs in /usr/include/mach/mach_vm.h. I found a decent example of using the Mach API in the Sage Mathematics System sources.