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Re:Hotpatching a C Function on x86 by wintermute42 on Friday April 01, 2016 @03:16PM (#11407707)
What, exactly, do you think is going on here? How on earth would the executable on the disk get modified by pointer manipulation? (without the use of mmap, of course)
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Re:Hotpatching a C Function on x86 by etrevino on Friday April 01, 2016 @03:24PM (#11407776)
Well, that's why I was asking, I wanted to understand. And now I do.
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