1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Peter Wemm 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd May 27, 2015 29.Dt KINFO_GETVMMAP 3 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm kinfo_getvmmap 33.Nd function for getting per-process memory map information 34.Sh LIBRARY 35.Lb libutil 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.In sys/types.h 38.In sys/user.h 39.In libutil.h 40.Ft struct kinfo_vmentry * 41.Fn kinfo_getvmmap "pid_t pid" "int *cntp" 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43This function is used for obtaining virtual memory mapping information 44of a particular process. 45.Pp 46The 47.Ar pid 48field contains the process identifier. 49This should be the a process that you have privilege to access. 50The 51.Ar cntp 52field is allows the caller to know how many records are returned. 53.Pp 54This function is a wrapper around 55.Xr sysctl 3 56with the 57.Dv KERN_PROC_VMMAP 58mib. 59While the kernel returns a packed structure, this function expands the 60data into a fixed record format. 61.Sh RETURN VALUES 62On success the 63.Fn kinfo_getvmmap 64function returns a pointer to an array of 65.Vt struct kinfo_vmentry 66structures as defined by 67.In sys/user.h . 68The array was obtained by an internal call to 69.Xr malloc 3 70and must be freed by the caller with a call to 71.Xr free 3 . 72On failure the 73.Fn kinfo_getvmmap 74function returns 75.Dv NULL . 76.Sh SEE ALSO 77.Xr free 3 , 78.Xr kinfo_getfile 3 , 79.Xr malloc 3 80