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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] v9fs vs mmap (not quite SOLVED)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:45:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202110271445.19REjWU8004233@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad2592771643c4df00cb4a6aa8b1f539@hamnavoe.com>

Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:

> >> 1. Some of the fpga tools are closed-source so I can't check with
> >> confidence that they will never try to use mmap.
> > 
> > Um, nm(1) on the binary to see what it calls?
>
> If you were distributing closed-source proprietary tools, would you leave
> the symbol tables intact to assist reverse engineering?

Of course not.

But even stripped binaries have some symbols in them, especially for
functions that are in the shared libc library on Linux. If the binaries
are totally statically linked and stripped, then yes, you're out of luck.

Try it. If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. It won't be the first time. :-)

Arnold

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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-24 11:03 [9fans] v9fs vs mmap Richard Miller
2021-10-24 19:50 ` [9fans] v9fs vs mmap (SOLVED) Richard Miller
2021-10-24 22:31   ` Conor Williams
2021-10-25 11:04   ` [9fans] v9fs vs mmap (not quite SOLVED) Richard Miller
2021-10-25 23:53     ` Conor Williams
2021-10-26  9:22       ` Richard Miller
2021-10-26 10:51     ` Richard Miller
2021-10-26 15:53       ` Dan Cross
2021-10-26 16:06         ` Conor Williams
2021-10-26 16:51         ` Richard Miller
2021-10-26 18:17           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-10-26 18:54             ` Conor Williams
2021-10-26 19:09             ` Richard Miller
2021-10-26 19:33               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-10-26 19:36                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-10-26 23:45                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-10-26 23:57                     ` Charles Forsyth
2021-10-27  8:27                       ` Richard Miller
2021-10-27 10:55                         ` Richard Miller
2021-10-27 12:31                           ` Dan Cross
2021-10-27 13:15                             ` Richard Miller
2021-10-27 13:20                               ` Dan Cross
2021-10-27 14:10                                 ` Richard Miller
2021-10-27 14:14                                   ` arnold
2021-10-27 14:39                                     ` Richard Miller
2021-10-27 14:45                                       ` arnold [this message]
2021-10-27 14:31                                   ` Dan Cross
2021-10-27 15:02                           ` Bakul Shah
2021-10-27 15:37                             ` Charles Forsyth
2021-10-27 16:34                         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-10-27 18:37                           ` Richard Miller
2021-10-27 19:12                             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-10-27 19:30                               ` [9fans] v9fs vs mmap (now SOLVED, we hope) Richard Miller
2021-10-27 20:18                                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-11-03 14:44                                   ` Conor Williams
2021-11-03 16:39                                     ` Conor Williams
2021-11-01  2:58                               ` [9fans] v9fs vs mmap (not quite SOLVED) Conor Williams
2021-11-04  0:32                                 ` Conor Williams
2021-11-04  3:15                                   ` Conor Williams
2021-11-04 11:49                                     ` Conor Williams
2021-11-05  3:16                                       ` Conor Williams
2021-11-05 10:21                                     ` Kenji Okamoto
2021-11-05 13:44                                       ` Conor Williams
2021-11-05 13:56                                         ` Conor Williams
2021-11-21  4:21                                           ` Conor Williams
2021-10-27  0:34                     ` Conor Williams

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