Bonkers

[Peter Corlett]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:34:28PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
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> Oh, I figgered out what's wrong with it. Memory allocated read-only for
> paranoid reasons?

It's not so much "allocated read-only for paranoid reasons" but that the
string constant is in the code section of the executable. The code section
is normally mapped read-only and executable.

A quick peek at the contents of /proc/<pid>/maps can be educational.