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Re: Help with something?


From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:46:47 -0800

On 12 Jan 09, at 09:53, Will McAfee wrote:
I got started a long time ago writing example code for new security-
interested people.  I got just one example done, my full time job and
school started, and gave up debugging.  Just out of curiosity, going
to throw it out there.  It's the only example up at http://labs.thegoodhacker.com/
 let's see where I messed up.  It segfaults, if I remember correctly.

At a glance, you're doing linked list management wrong. Stop trying to  
code your own. This is C++; the STL exists for a reason.

Same goes for char arrays (which you leak all over the place). The STL  
has strings too.

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