[H-GEN] Linux related work in Bris vegas?

Andrae Muys amuys at contal.net.au
Mon Aug 26 23:03:07 EDT 2002


[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
[ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]

Ben Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 09:54, Paul Gearon wrote:
>>- Segfaulting doesn't happen. Instead you either crash another program or
>>corrupt the kernel (but our programs never segfault... right?)  :-)
> This is one of the major ones. I have seen folks strcpy() to a const
> char* on the stack before, I always like a little entropy in my life,
> but that is just too much fun. I guess this one depends on how
> comfortable you are with the other folks who have cvs write access.
> 

Ok, now I'm confused.  Could some kind soul please explain to me how you 
can have a const char* on the stack?  I don't think I've ever seen a 
constant stack segment before... A POP-only stack, interesting concept ;).

Andrae Muys


--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.  See http://www.humbug.org.au/



More information about the General mailing list