On the screen or in /tmp/foo ???
> Glibc doesn't check the contents of the FILE structures, just
> the addresses and since it "knows" the pointer received was not
> one it provided, it generates signal 11 on its own.
Is this the simplest explanation ? Seems to me that the FILE structure
could contain (directly or indirectly) a self-referential pointer.
Moving it would certainly break something ...
But what does this have to do with the kernel ?
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