Re: Understanding Linux addr space, malloc, and heap

[Paulo Marques]

> > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 09:45 -0400, Vincent W. Freeh wrote:
> > I cannot mprotect data that I malloc ...

> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > you can't mprotect malloc() memory period ..

Vincent W. Freeh wrote:
> Actually, I can and do.  Simple program at end.

Am I the only one who finds this conversation weird? :)

This reminds me of a student I had that called "main" to return to the 
start of the application. No matter how I explained that it was simply 
wrong and that stack was growing because of that he just kept replying: 
"but it works!"...

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adversaries are insane.
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