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Run a process from memory in another process?

I would like to have a small application loader program that receives other binary application files via TCP from an external server and runs them.

I could do this by saving the transferred file to the hard drive and using the system () call to run it. However, I am wondering if it is possible to launch a new application from memory without touching the hard drive.

The state of the bootloader application does not matter after loading a new application. I prefer to stick with C, but C ++ solutions are also welcome. I would also like to stick with the standard Linux C features and not use any external libraries if possible.

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You can look at and reuse UPX , which decompresses the executable into memory, and then transfers control to ld-linuxrun it.

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