[Techtalk] Rescue data in a hung vi process?
Conor Daly
conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Wed May 8 21:19:08 EST 2002
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:17:27AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Laurel Fan thought:
>
> /dev/mem is the memory device for the entire machine (so you need root
> to access it). strings and grepping that could possibly help...
though you'd probably want to dump that to disk first
dd if=/dev/mem of=memory_dump
On a completely unrelated note, something fun to do for those Long Dark
Teatimes of the Soul (TM)...
dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/dsp
You know how sounds can evoke memories? Well now you can have memory
evoke sounds...
Conor
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