How do I programmatically generate something like /proc/pid/maps?

Question

How do I programmatically generate something like /proc/pid/maps ? Is there an API which can get me the same data as in /proc/pid/maps ? Parsing text can be a bit flaky.

Answer 1

/proc/$pid/maps is the API. If you're using C, you can reliably parse lines in this file using the scanf format:

"%08lx-%08lx %c%c%c%c %08llx %02x:%02x %lu %n"

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