How does the Linux Kernel start a Process

Stack smashing: How Linux creates the stack and runs a program. Then mess with it.

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I was going to read this, but when it starts with this... yeah I'll pass.

How does Linux start a process ...and how to ptrace the entry point and m3ss w1th da stack.
- Thanks for taking one for the team.
- Yeah, the author is a bit 1337 hax0r, and is promoting their own tool, but I still thought the writeup was interesting. It's interesting to see how much a non-root process can do to globally visible data.
Jesus. I thought it just asked nicely.