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Though it should be noted that's not quite the same thing as execve. Execve does a lot of things in addition to running the main function (privilege transitions

by cyphar 7y ago

Though it should be noted that's not quite the same thing as execve. Execve does a lot of things in addition to running the main function (privilege transitions like setuid being just one example).

saagarjha 7y ago
Of course; in addition to kernel setup this will also skip over initializers in the binary and other things that the C runtime does before main. Needless to say, this is mostly only useful as a fun side effect of PIE executables.