hpux man page for mem

mem(7)							 Miscellaneous Information Manual						    mem(7)

NAME
       mem - main memory image file

DESCRIPTION
       is a special file that is an image of the main memory of the computer.  It may be used, for example, to examine and patch the system.

       Byte addresses in are interpreted as physical memory addresses.	References to non-existent locations cause errors to be returned.

       File  is  the  same  as except that kernel virtual memory rather than physical memory is accessed.  Please refer to kmem(7) for information
       about ioctl operations that are supported on

WARNINGS
       Examining and patching device registers is likely to lead to unexpected results when read-only or write-only bits are present.

FILES
SEE ALSO
       kmem(7).

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