A small tool used to inspect memory of remote active process under Linux without any side-effect (MAYBE, as tested).

memhex.c

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#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<ctype.h>
#include<sys/ptrace.h>

int main(int argc,char **argv)
{
    if(argc < 4) {
        fprintf(stdout, "Usage: memhex <pid> <mem_offset> <len>\n");
        return 0;
    }

    int pid = atoi(argv[1]);
    long offset = strtoll(argv[2], NULL, 16);
    int len = atoi(argv[3]);

    fprintf(stdout, "\nmemhex v1.0 - print memory of remote process\n\n");
    fprintf(stdout, "Process ID: %d\n", pid);
    fprintf(stdout, "Offset: %lx\n", offset);
    fprintf(stdout, "Length: %d\n\n", len);

    if(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0, 0)) {
        fprintf(stdout, "Attach process(pid:%d) failed. %m", pid);
        return 0;
    }

    unsigned char buf[0x10] = {'.'};
    for(int i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
        if((i & 1) == 0) {
            unsigned short s = (unsigned short)ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKDATA, pid, (void*)(offset + i), 0);
            buf[i & 0xF] = s & 0xFF;
            buf[(i & 0xF) + 1] = (s >> 8) & 0xFF;
        }
        if(((i & 0xF) == 0xF) || (i == len - 1)) {
            fprintf(stdout, "%lx: ", offset + (i >> 4 << 4));

            int j = 0;
            for(; j <= (i & 0xF); ++j)
                fprintf(stdout, "%02x ", buf[j]);
            for(; j <= 0xF; ++j)
                fprintf(stdout, ".. ");

            fprintf(stdout, " [");
            for(j = 0; j <= 0xF; ++j) {
                if(!isprint(buf[j]))
                    fprintf(stdout, ".");
                else
                    fprintf(stdout, "%c", buf[j]);
                buf[j] = '.';
            }
            fprintf(stdout, "]\n");
        }
    }
    fprintf(stdout, "\n");
    return 0;
}