The ECFS reference guide

The ECFS file format is both simple and complicated! The ELF file format is complex in general, and ECFS inherits those complexities from a structural point of view. On the other side of the token, ECFS helps make navigating a process image quite easy if you know what specific features it has and what to look for.

In previous sections, we gave some real-life examples of utilizing ECFS that demonstrated many of its primary features. However, it is also important to have a simple and direct reference to what those characteristics are, such as which custom sections exist and what exactly they mean. In this section, we will provide a reference for the ECFS snapshot files.

ECFS symbol table reconstruction

The ECFS handler uses ...

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