Show HN: Heap Explorer

I wrote a little LD_PRELOAD library that makes it easy to inspect and interact with a running program's glibc heap.

It's fun to pause processes, free a bunch of their allocations, then resume them. Most of the time, the processes continue as though nothing happened, but sometimes they do interesting things :)


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Created 5mo | Feb 6, 2025, 9:30:11 PM


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