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That "big pile of key-value strings pushed onto the stack above the environment" is auxv. You can see it in the binary /proc/*/auxv files. It's generated by the
by tropo 11y ago
That "big pile of key-value strings pushed onto the stack above the environment" is auxv. You can see it in the binary /proc/*/auxv files. It's generated by the kernel's ELF loader.
- david-given 11y agoArrgh! I wish I'd known that six years ago. It'd have made life so much easier. I was trying to figure them out from reading the source code...