Reading living process memory without interrupting it

Question

I would like to explore the memory of a living process, and when I do so, the process must not get disturbed - so attaching gdb to the process (which would stop it) is not a

Answer 1

You'll have to use /proc/pid/mem to read process memory. I wouldn't recommend trying to read /proc/kcore or any of the kernel memory functions (which is time consuming).