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Can anyone provided an explanation of how the binary patch is applied?

• f2f 13y ago
  If you're familiar with Go you can read the source of the apply function here: the loadKernel function reads in the kernel and builds a symbol table looking for the bsd_ast and current_thread symbols here: https://code.google.com/p/rsc/source/browse/cmd/pprof_mac_fix/main.go#231 https://code.google.com/p/rsc/source/browse/cmd/pprof_mac_fi... then the "apply" func writes the modified binary instructions code: https://code.google.com/p/rsc/source/browse/cmd/pprof_mac_fix/main.go#464 https://code.google.com/p/rsc/source/browse/cmd/pprof_mac_fi...