Short: V1.3 Kills GURUs (stack problem) Author: georg.steger@rolmail.net (Georg Steger) Uploader: georg.steger@rolmail.net (Georg Steger) Version: 1.3 Type: util/boot Requires: OS 2.0 (V36) If you are running many programs that patch system functions (such as commodities and hacks) it might happen that sometimes your machine crashes without real "motivation". This is often caused by a too low stack of many programs (because of the patched routines increasing the stack usage of the corresponding system function). StackAttack tries to kill these GURUs by patching CreateProc(), CreateNew- Proc(), RunCommand() and SystemTagList(). It alters the stack passed to these routines depending on what parameters you supply to StackAttack. StackAttack allows you to set a minimum stack size a new process (program) shall have and also by how much bytes you want to increase the stack further NOTES: ====== o StackAttack only eats some hundred bytes! CHANGES IN V 1.3: ================= o Fixed my email address, which was not vaild anymore since many years o StackAttack itself does not contain any updates. I just decided to re-upload it, because StackAttack was removed from Aminet some time ago, after someone had uploaded a trojan infected version. *** StackAttack is FREEWARE *** ============================================================================ (C) Copyright 1997-2001 by Georg Steger. All rights reserved! ============================================================================ ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 2393 922 61.4% 18-Jul-97 13:05:06 +FileAttack.cd 2018 839 58.4% 18-Jul-97 13:05:20 +FileAttack.ct 29072 13920 52.1% 05-Dec-97 16:17:44 +FileAttack 1689 821 51.3% 07-Sep-01 21:17:48 +H E L P M E ! ! 2901 2062 28.9% 07-Sep-01 21:17:50 +H E L P M E ! !.info 756 437 42.1% 07-Sep-01 21:20:16 +Important.readme 3124 2273 27.2% 07-Sep-01 21:20:20 +Important.readme.info 5964 2213 62.8% 18-Aug-97 16:10:56 +Install 2871 1471 48.7% 07-Sep-01 21:18:46 +Install.info 2480 1586 36.0% 07-Sep-01 21:18:46 +Source.info 3971 1542 61.1% 07-Sep-01 21:29:52 +main.c 3036 2145 29.3% 25-Oct-97 23:37:08 +main.c.info 5912 1392 76.4% 03-Nov-97 22:14:54 +patch.asm 2693 1940 27.9% 25-Oct-97 23:37:02 +patch.asm.info 568 334 41.1% 25-Oct-97 23:26:12 +ReadMe 2963 2090 29.4% 25-Oct-97 23:36:36 +ReadMe.info 2388 1463 38.7% 07-Sep-01 21:29:28 +StackAttack 8265 3052 63.0% 07-Sep-01 21:17:18 +StackAttack.guide 3265 2209 32.3% 07-Sep-01 21:17:20 +StackAttack.guide.info 2487 1406 43.4% 07-Sep-01 21:35:50 StackAttack.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 88816 44117 50.3% 09-Sep-101 11:53:52 20 files