proc_pid_mem(5)

proc_pid_mem5

Memory

Overview

/proc/pid/mem

This file can be used to access the pages of a process's memory through open(2), read(2), and lseek(2).

Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2).

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.