Thanks much!

["deepcode ." <pondermate () hotmail com>]

Well I guess it was gdb then that caused the problems and not me, thanks 
everyone for helping out, I plan to do more on the subject .. so expect me 
to bother you with this trivial info in the future :)

the shellcode I wrote used

\x31\xFF\x57   as xor edi, edi and push edi.

The proper shellcode was

\x33\xFF\x57, so the new shellcode worked when used the way boogenhagn 
showed me, thanks again mate, I owe you one.

deepcode

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