ReadProcessMemory question
Robert Shearman
rob at codeweavers.com
Sat Nov 17 11:29:48 CST 2007
Dave Cartright wrote:
> I am trying to read the memory of another process with
> ReadProcessmemory and I can only get it to work when I commit the
> entire region I want to read with VirtualAllocEx - but as you probably
> know when I do this it initializes the entire memory region to 0s.
> So my question is how do I get ReadProcessmemory to read from the region??
It sounds to me like you're trying to read the previous contents of
areas of memory. However, you don't seem to realise either that virtual
memory is not physical memory or that uncommitted virtual memory is not
backed by a page of memory in swap or physical memory, so calling
ReadProcessMemory on it doesn't make sense as there is no data there to
be read! Furthermore, when a page of virtual memory is deallocated then
it free to be allocated again by any process in the system, and as you
say it is initialised to all 0's as a security measure and you can't get
that same page back again.
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Rob Shearman
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