Winning the race: Signals, symlinks, and TOC/TOU

Introduction: So, before we dive right into things, just a few bits of advice; some programming knowledge, an understanding of what symbolic linking is within *nix and how it works, and also an understanding of how multi-threading and signal handlers work would be beneficial for readers to understand the concepts I’m going to be covering…

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  1. Winning the race: Signals, symlinks, and TOC/TOU – 0xFFFF@blog:~$ – Library 9: Gladius Edition
  2. kingtoto

    I really enjoyed reading this article. Thanks a lot to the author.
    If I understood right, shouldn’t be the breakpoint at *0x80485ac instead of *0x80485ca for fopen() ?

    1. uid0

      You’re correct.. good job spotting that! I’ll update the post.

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