remoteprocess

This crate provides a cross platform way of querying information about other processes running on the system. This let's you build profiling and debugging tools.

Features:

• Suspending the execution of the process
• Getting the process executable name and current working directory
• Listing all the threads in the process
• Figure out if a thread is active or not
• Read memory from the other proceses (using readprocesesmemory crate)
• Getting a stack trace for a thread in the target process
• Resolve symbols for an address in the other process

This crate provides implementations for Linux, OSX, FreeBSD and Windows

Usage

To show a stack trace from each thread in a program

```rust fn get_backtrace(pid: remoteprocess::Pid) -> Result<(), remoteprocess::Error> { // Create a new handle to the process let process = remoteprocess::Process::new(pid)?;

// lock the process to get a consistent snapshot. Unwinding will fail otherwise
let _lock = process.lock()?;

// Create a stack unwind object, and use it to get the stack for each thread
let unwinder = process.unwinder()?;
for thread in process.threads()?.iter() {
    println!("Thread {}", thread);

    // Iterate over the callstack for the current thread
    for ip in unwinder.cursor(thread)? {
        let ip = ip?;

        // Lookup the current stack frame containing a filename/function/linenumber etc
        // for the current address
        unwinder.symbolicate(ip, &mut |sf| {
            println!("{}", sf);
        })?;
    }
}
Ok(())

} ```

A complete program with this code can be found in the examples folder.

Limitations

Currently we only have implementations for getting stack traces on x86_64 processors running Linux/Windows or OSX. We don't have the abilitiy to get stack traces at all from ARM or i686 processors, or from FreeBSD.

Credits

This crate heavily relies on the gimli project. Gimli is an amazing tool for parsing DWARF debugging information, and we are using it here for looking up filename and line numbers given an instruction pointeer.