My main aim is to understand the workings of the kernel a little bit better. For this reason I would like to verify what is stored in the first few hundred memory locations. e.g in x202 the signature HdrS is supposed to be stored.

1. First of all, what kind of operation system you are talking about? Linux, *BSD, Windoh$ ? 2. What memory you want to reach: kernel space or userland space or even physical memory? 3. Do you have root access to that machine? 4. What kind of memory structures you have a desire to reach? If you will give the answer to this questions, I can help you with answer. -- All the Best! ----------------- Sergey Kuznetsov Senior Software Developer Blueprint Initiative Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml