How would I go about editing the memory of other applications using Cocoa? I know the editing has to be done as root, but how would I do it in the first place?
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How would I go about editing the memory of other applications using Cocoa? I know the editing has to be done as root, but how would I do it in the first place?
I’d point out that PTrace is terribly broken on OS X. Hopefully that article helps you sidestep the issues. You can also use mach directly to alter memory… check out how Mach_inject does it.