readecfs

The readecfs utility will be used throughout the rest of this chapter while demonstrating the different ECFS features. Here is a synopsis of the tool from readecfs -h:

Usage: readecfs [-RAPSslphega] <ecfscore>
-a  print all (equiv to -Sslphega)
-s  print symbol table info
-l  print shared library names
-p  print ELF program headers
-S  print ELF section headers
-h  print ELF header
-g  print PLTGOT info
-A  print Auxiliary vector
-P  print personality info
-e  print ecfs specific (auiliary vector, process state, sockets, pipes, fd's, etc.)

-[View raw data from a section]
-R <ecfscore> <section>

-[Copy an ELF section into a file (Similar to objcopy)]
-O <ecfscore> .section <outfile>

-[Extract and decompress /proc/$pid from .procfs.tgz section into directory]
-X <ecfscore> <output_dir>

Examples:
readecfs -e <ecfscore>
readecfs -Ag <ecfscore>
readecfs -R <ecfscore> .stack
readecfs -R <ecfscore> .bss
readecfs -eR ...