PLEASE HELP regarding System Tap
Khushboo Goel
kgoel@usc.edu
Wed Jul 9 00:51:00 GMT 2008
>> Is it possible i can know what address location is assigned to system
>> Tap buffer in the memory ??
>
> Well, yes, all of SystemTap is open source, so it's possible to peek
> into the internals. The runtime sources contain the implementation for
> the maps data structures. You can also run your script with "-p3" to
> see the code that's generated, and use that as a guide to tell how the
> maps are accessed.
>
> It seems very strange that you would ask for this though. What would
> you do with the address once you find it?
>
i want to write the data directly to that memory location instead of
system tap writing there , in that ways i won't get buffer overflow
problem, as i will be managing the data.
Anyways i will try -p3 and see how it helps me.
>
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