Short: Mungwall & Enforcer DB tool w/o MMU (bugfix) Author: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de Uploader: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de Type: dev/debug _____________________________________________________________________________ The memsniff release 1.09 was broken, please upgrade to 1.10. I have to apologize for the broken 1.09 - it caused really a lot of crashes. After a long debug session for over eight hours it turned out that this problem was not caused by MemSniff, but by "MagicMenu" ! The details are a bit tricky, but if you're interested what was going wrong, read the "bugreport" in this archive. Anyways, MemSniff works now sucessfully with MM, even though I would say that this tool contains (another) bug. _____________________________________________________________________________ Purpose of this program: This program finds illegal memory changes by continously checking the free memory. It also protects the memory allocation functions in a mungwall like way. An exteral terminal or a interal low-level-debugger (like COP from the same author) is recommended, but not needed. MemSniff is not a Enforcer-replacement cause you can't replace the full functionality of a MMU, but it does everything possible to find memory violations. It does not: -protect memory already allocated, since this is not possible without a MMU Since this memory checking is a bit tricky, there ARE KNOWN incompatibilities. DO NOT RUN MemSniff permanently, cause it slows down your system considerably and reduces the size of the available memory up to the half! Known incompatibilities: -Does not work well with memory defraction utilities, like PoolMem from the same author. -Does not work well with the SaferPatches utility of the same author, unless you install SaferPatches with a special option. Greetings, happy debugging, Thomas. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 3087 1360 55.9% 25-May-97 14:09:02 +BugReport 7132 4378 38.6% 25-May-97 13:44:34 +MemSniff 8602 3768 56.1% 25-May-97 13:45:58 +MemSniff.doc 1862 915 50.8% 25-May-97 13:50:18 +MemSniff.readme -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 20683 10421 49.6% 27-May-97 03:16:24 4 files