[erlang-questions] Inspecting a process's binaries

[Lukas Larsson]

Hello,

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Roger Lipscombe <roger@REDACTED>
wrote:

> I can get a list of binaries for a process with process_info(Pid,
> binary), which returns {binary, [{Id, Size, NRefs},...]}.
>
> Given the Id (which looks like 140327404952984, for example), can I
> find out what's *in* that binary?
>

It is not possible without looking under the hood in the VM. The ID is a an
'Binary *', so if you attach to the process using gdb and issue

(gdb) p *(Binary*)(140327404952984)

You should get some information about what the binary is. The same can of
course be done from a core file if you have the ID.

Lukas
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