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monocasatoday at 5:11 PM1 replyview on HN

That's not really patching though, any more than any use of function pointers is patching.


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201984today at 6:38 PM

There's a part of the .so ELF file (the Global Offset Table aka GOT) that has to be modified with all the addresses of the functions being imported, which of course vary from process to process.

If not patching, what exactly would you call modifying part of the file?

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