diff --git a/psutil/arch/solaris/process_as_utils.c b/psutil/arch/solaris/process_as_utils.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc7293c785
--- /dev/null
+++ b/psutil/arch/solaris/process_as_utils.c
@@ -0,0 +1,386 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017, Oleksii Shevcuhk. All rights reserved.
+ * Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+ * found in the LICENSE file.
+ *
+ * Functions specific to Sun OS Solaris platforms.
+ */
+
+#define _STRUCTURED_PROC 1
+
+#if !defined(_LP64) && _FILE_OFFSET_BITS == 64
+#  undef _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
+#  undef _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
+#endif
+
+#include <Python.h>
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/procfs.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+
+#include "process_as_utils.h"
+
+/** Function opens address space of specified process and return file
+ *  descriptor.
+ *  @param pid a pid of process.
+ *  @param procfs_path a path to mounted procfs filesystem.
+ *  @return file descriptor or -1 in case of error.
+ */
+static int
+open_address_space(pid_t pid, const char *procfs_path) {
+    int fd;
+    char proc_path[PATH_MAX];
+
+    snprintf(proc_path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%i/as", procfs_path, pid);
+    fd = open(proc_path, O_RDONLY);
+    if (fd < 0)
+        PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+
+    return fd;
+}
+
+/** Function reads chunk of data by offset to specified
+ *  buffer of the same size.
+ *  @param fd a file descriptor.
+ *  @param offset an required offset in file.
+ *  @param buf a buffer where to store result.
+ *  @param buf_size a size of buffer where data will be stored.
+ *  @return amount of bytes stored to the buffer or -1 in case of
+ *          error.
+ */
+static int
+read_offt(int fd, off_t offset, char *buf, size_t buf_size) {
+    size_t to_read = buf_size;
+    size_t stored  = 0;
+
+    while (to_read) {
+        int r = pread(fd, buf + stored, to_read, offset + stored);
+        if (r < 0)
+            goto error;
+        else if (r == 0)
+            break;
+
+        to_read -= r;
+        stored += r;
+    }
+
+    return stored;
+
+ error:
+    PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+    return -1;
+}
+
+#define STRING_SEARCH_BUF_SIZE 512
+
+/** Function reads null-terminated string from file descriptor starting from
+ *  specified offset.
+ *  @param fd a file descriptor of opened address space.
+ *  @param offset an offset in specified file descriptor.
+ *  @return allocated null-terminated string or NULL in case of error.
+*/
+static char *
+read_cstring_offt(int fd, off_t offset) {
+    int r;
+    int i = 0;
+    off_t end = offset;
+    size_t len;
+    char buf[STRING_SEARCH_BUF_SIZE];
+    char *result = NULL;
+
+    if (lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET) == (off_t)-1) {
+        PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+        goto error;
+    }
+
+    // Search end of string
+    for (;;) {
+        r = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
+        if (r == -1) {
+            PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+            goto error;
+        }
+        else if (r == 0)
+            break;
+        else
+            for (i=0; i<r; i++)
+                if (! buf[i])
+                    goto found;
+
+        end += r;
+    }
+
+  found:
+    len = end + i - offset;
+
+    result = malloc(len+1);
+    if (! result) {
+        PyErr_NoMemory();
+        goto error;
+    }
+
+    if (len)
+        if (read_offt(fd, offset, result, len) < 0)
+            goto error;
+
+    result[len] = '\0';
+    return result;
+
+ error:
+    if (result)
+        free(result);
+
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+/** Function reads block of addresses by offset, dereference them one by one
+ *  and create an array of null terminated C strings from them.
+ *  @param fd a file descriptor of address space of interesting process.
+ *  @param offset an offset of address block in address space.
+ *  @param ptr_size a size of pointer. Only 4 or 8 are valid values.
+ *  @param count amount of pointers in block.
+ *  @return allocated array of strings dereferenced and read by offset. Number of
+ *        elements in array are count. In case of error function returns NULL.
+ */
+static char **
+read_cstrings_block(int fd, off_t offset, size_t ptr_size, size_t count) {
+    char **result = NULL;
+    char *pblock = NULL;
+    size_t pblock_size;
+    int i;
+
+    assert(ptr_size == 4 || ptr_size == 8);
+
+    if (!count)
+        goto error;
+
+    pblock_size = ptr_size * count;
+
+    pblock = malloc(pblock_size);
+    if (! pblock) {
+        PyErr_NoMemory();
+        goto enomem;
+    }
+
+    if (read_offt(fd, offset, pblock, pblock_size) != pblock_size)
+        goto error;
+
+    result = (char **) calloc(count, sizeof(char *));
+    if (! result) {
+        PyErr_NoMemory();
+        goto enomem;
+    }
+
+    for (i=0; i<count; i++) {
+        result[i] = read_cstring_offt(
+            fd, (ptr_size == 4?
+                ((uint32_t *) pblock)[i]:
+                ((uint64_t *) pblock)[i]));
+
+        if (!result[i])
+            goto error;
+    }
+
+    free(pblock);
+    return result;
+
+ error:
+    if (result)
+        psutil_free_cstrings_array(result, i);
+    if (pblock)
+        free(pblock);
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+/** Checks that caller process can extract proper values from psinfo_t structure.
+ *  @param info a ponter to process info (psinfo_t) structure of the
+ *              interesting process.
+ *  @return 1 in case if caller process can extract proper values from psinfo_t
+ *          structure, or 0 otherwise.
+ */
+static inline int
+is_ptr_dereference_possible(psinfo_t info) {
+#if !defined(_LP64)
+    return info.pr_dmodel == PR_MODEL_ILP32;
+#else
+    return 1;
+#endif
+}
+
+/** Return pointer size according to psinfo_t structure
+ *  @param info a ponter to process info (psinfo_t) structure of the
+ *              interesting process.
+ *  @return pointer size (4 or 8).
+ */
+static inline int
+ptr_size_by_psinfo(psinfo_t info) {
+    return info.pr_dmodel == PR_MODEL_ILP32? 4 : 8;
+}
+
+/** Count amount of pointers in a block which ends with NULL.
+ *  @param fd a discriptor of /proc/PID/as special file.
+ *  @param offt an offset of block of pointers at the file.
+ *  @param ptr_size a pointer size (allowed values: {4, 8}).
+ *  @return amount of non-NULL pointers or -1 in case of error.
+ */
+static int
+search_pointers_vector_size_offt(int fd, off_t offt, size_t ptr_size) {
+    int count = 0;
+    int r;
+    char buf[8];
+    static const char zeros[8] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
+
+    assert(ptr_size == 4 || ptr_size == 8);
+
+    if (lseek(fd, offt, SEEK_SET) == (off_t)-1)
+        goto error;
+
+    for (;; count ++) {
+        r = read(fd, buf, ptr_size);
+
+        if (r < 0)
+            goto error;
+
+        if (r == 0)
+            break;
+
+        if (r != ptr_size) {
+            PyErr_SetString(
+                PyExc_RuntimeError, "Pointer block is truncated");
+
+            return -1;
+        }
+
+        if (! memcmp(buf, zeros, ptr_size))
+            break;
+    }
+
+    return count;
+
+ error:
+    PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
+    return -1;
+}
+
+/** Derefence and read array of strings by psinfo_t.pr_argv pointer from remote process.
+ *  @param info a ponter to process info (psinfo_t) structure of the
+ *              interesting process
+ *  @param procfs_path a cstring with path to mounted procfs filesystem.
+ *  @param count a pointer to variable where to store amount of elements in
+ *         returned array. In case of error value of variable will not be changed.
+ *  @return allocated array of cstrings or NULL in case of error.
+ */
+char **
+psutil_read_raw_args(psinfo_t info, const char *procfs_path, size_t *count) {
+    int as;
+    char **result;
+
+    if (! is_ptr_dereference_possible(info)) {
+        PyErr_SetString(
+            PyExc_RuntimeError, "Dereferencing procfs pointers of "
+            "64bit process is not possible");
+
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    if (! (info.pr_argv && info.pr_argc)) {
+        PyErr_SetString(
+            PyExc_RuntimeError, "Process doesn't have arguments block");
+
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    as = open_address_space(info.pr_pid, procfs_path);
+    if (as < 0)
+        return NULL;
+
+    result = read_cstrings_block(
+        as, info.pr_argv, ptr_size_by_psinfo(info), info.pr_argc
+    );
+
+    if (result && count)
+        *count = info.pr_argc;
+
+    close(as);
+
+    return result;
+}
+
+/** Dereference and read array of strings by psinfo_t.pr_envp pointer from remote process.
+ *  @param info a ponter to process info (psinfo_t) structure of the
+ *              interesting process.
+ *  @param procfs_path a cstring with path to mounted procfs filesystem.
+ *  @param count a pointer to variable where to store amount of elements in
+ *         returned array. In case of error value of variable will not be
+ *         changed. To detect special case (described later) variable should be
+ *         initialized by -1 or other negative value.
+ *  @return allocated array of cstrings or NULL in case of error.
+ *          Special case: count set to 0, return NULL.
+ *          Special case means there is no error acquired, but no data retrieved.
+ *          Special case exists because the nature of the process. From the
+ *          beginning it's not clean how many pointers in envp array. Also
+ *          situation when environment is empty is common for kernel processes.
+ */
+char **
+psutil_read_raw_env(psinfo_t info, const char *procfs_path, ssize_t *count) {
+    int as;
+    int env_count;
+    int ptr_size;
+    char **result = NULL;
+
+    if (! is_ptr_dereference_possible(info)) {
+        PyErr_SetString(
+            PyExc_RuntimeError, "Dereferencing procfs pointers of "
+            "64bit process is not possible");
+
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    if (! info.pr_envp) {
+        if (count)
+            *count = 0;
+
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    as = open_address_space(info.pr_pid, procfs_path);
+    if (as < 0)
+        return NULL;
+
+    ptr_size = ptr_size_by_psinfo(info);
+
+    env_count = search_pointers_vector_size_offt(
+        as, info.pr_envp, ptr_size);
+
+    if (env_count >= 0 && count)
+        *count = env_count;
+
+    if (env_count > 0)
+        result = read_cstrings_block(
+            as, info.pr_envp, ptr_size, env_count
+       );
+
+    close(as);
+    return result;
+}
+
+/** Free array of cstrings.
+ *  @param array an array of cstrings returned by psutil_read_raw_env,
+ *               psutil_read_raw_args or any other function.
+ *  @param count a count of strings in the passed array
+ */
+void
+psutil_free_cstrings_array(char **array, size_t count) {
+    int i;
+
+    if (!array)
+        return;
+
+    for (i=0; i<count; i++)
+        if (array[i])
+            free(array[i]);
+
+    free(array);
+}
diff --git a/psutil/arch/solaris/process_as_utils.h b/psutil/arch/solaris/process_as_utils.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..966a806caf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/psutil/arch/solaris/process_as_utils.h
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017, Oleksii Shevcuhk. All rights reserved.
+ * Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+ * found in the LICENSE file.
+ *
+ * Functions specific to Sun OS Solaris platforms.
+ */
+
+#ifndef PROCESS_AS_UTILS_H
+#define PROCESS_AS_UTILS_H
+
+char **
+psutil_read_raw_args(psinfo_t info, const char *procfs_path, size_t *count);
+
+char **
+psutil_read_raw_env(psinfo_t info, const char *procfs_path, ssize_t *count);
+
+void
+psutil_free_cstrings_array(char **array, size_t count);
+
+#endif // PROCESS_AS_UTILS_H
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cf3deb7f71..f6acc149bf 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ def get_ethtool_macro():
         sources=sources + [
             'psutil/_psutil_sunos.c',
             'psutil/arch/solaris/v10/ifaddrs.c',
+            'psutil/arch/solaris/process_as_utils.c'
         ],
         define_macros=macros,
         libraries=['kstat', 'nsl', 'socket'])