FUNCTION::USER_STRING_QUOTED(3stap)

💖 FUNCTION::USER_STRING_QUOTED 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the SystemTap Tapset Reference manual, section 3stap — it's a tapset function page, and honestly? it's giving "tiny function, huge main character energy." ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

function::user_string_quoted — retrieves and quotes a string from user space. no cap, that's the whole job description. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

user_string_quoted:string(addr:long)

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• addr — the user space address you wanna pull the string from. that's it, that's the whole input. 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 — this function returns the null terminated C string sitting at a given user space memory address, and it does a lil glow-up on the way out:

• any ASCII characters that are not printable get swapped out for the corresponding escape sequence in the string you get back 🔥
• and the whole thing gets surrounded by double quotes 💖 like it's being presented on a little velvet pillow

🫶 rare situation alert: on the rare cases when userspace data is not accessible at the given address, the function just hands you back the address itself as a string, and — plot twist — without double quotes. so if you see a bare address string, that's the vibe check failing, iykyk 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• tapset::uconversions(3stap) — go read this one next, it's iconic 👑

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