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function::user_string_n_warn

Name

function::user_string_n_warn — Retrieves string from user space.

Synopsis

function user_string_n_warn:string(addr:long,n:long)

Arguments

addr
The user space address to retrieve the string from.
n
The maximum length of the string (if not null terminated).

General Syntax

user_string_n_warn:string(addr:long, n:long)

Description

Returns up to n characters of a C string from a given user space memory address. Reports “<unknown>” on the rare cases when userspace data is not accessible and warns (but does not abort) about the failure.