On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:03:33PM -0400, Jack C wrote:
I'm running on Fedora 5. Is this a security thing that's new in the past
2 years or so since I've coded one of these? Is there any way I can
either (1) make the stack sit still so I can point into it or (2) find
out where it is during execution?
Assuming you're using a 2.6.11+ kernel, stack space is randomized by
default. You can turn it off by doing:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
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