I need to get the filenames of all memory mapped libraries of the current application. Currently I'm going through all mapped libraries via vm_region. Sadly it doesn't provide information about the...

In C#, how can one store and calculate with numbers that significantly exceed UInt64's max value (18,446,744,073,709,551,615)?

What is linear address? How is it different from physical address?

Intel and AMD documentation says that for 64 bit mode only 48 bits are actually available for virtual addresses, and bits from 48 to 63 must replicate bit 47 (sign-extension). As far as I know, all...

I have a set of files whose lengths are all multiples of the page-size of my operating system (FreeBSD 10). I would like to mmap() these files to consecutive pages of RAM, giving me the ability to ...

I am trying to gather as much information as I can about an apparent infinite loop issue seen when using Valgrind 3.11.0 on Mac OS 10.11.1 'El Capitan'. When I run valgrind on my program in LLDB o...

First off, I've already found a few references which might answer my question. While I plan on reading them soon (i.e. after work), I'm still asking here in case the answer is trivial and does not ...

Imagine a 32-bit x86 computer with less than 3 gigabytes of memory with CPU set up with disabled paging and flat segment descriptors (0x0 as base, 0xffffffff as an effective limit for both data and...

I'm reading "Understanding Linux Kernel". Paging for 64-bit Architectures As we have seen in the previous sections, two-level paging is commonly used by 32-bit microprocessors. Two-level ...

First, the question: do CLR specifications guarantee that the code executing in multiple app domains within the same process will share the same address space? By "sharing the address space" I mean...

I am developing a C# program that will load files and get information such as loaded file created date, modification date, size etc. Another thing that I need to know is whether the loaded file (ex...

How to write to another process's address space using python under Ubuntu Linux? My attempts: 1) Using the virtual file /proc/$PID/mem and seeking to the address. I have successfully used it to r...

i am new to "fork()",I read everywhere that when a fork() is called an exact copy of current (calling) process is started.Now when I run following code ,there should be two different processes, hav...