Section 5 · File formats
proc_pid_mem.5
Package: man-pages
proc_pid_mem
NAME
/proc/pid/mem − memory
DESCRIPTION
/proc/pid/mem
This file can be used to access the pages of a process’s memory through open(2), read(2), and lseek(2).
Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2).
SEE ALSO
proc(5)