From: Kilobug <kilobug@freesurf.fr>
To: SA products <super.aorta@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: faking time
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 00:08:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C684EF2.2040609@freesurf.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C67AFD3.722C5471@ntlworld.com>
SA products wrote:
> Dear Kernel list,
>
> I want to fake the time returned by the time() system call so that for a
> limited number
> of user space programs the time can be set to the future or the past
> without affecting
> other applications and without affecting system time-- Ideally I would
> like to install a
> loadable module to accomplish this- Any hints ? Any starting points?
Maybe could you use a shared library loaded with LD_PRELOAD that
overrides the libc's time() function ?
IMHO this is simpler (and safer) than writing a kernel module, but
it will only work with dynamically linked programs, not with static
nor suid-ed programs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-11 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-11 11:49 faking time SA products
2002-02-11 13:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-11 20:31 ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-11 21:29 ` Nerijus Baliunas
2002-02-11 23:08 ` Kilobug [this message]
2002-02-12 3:47 ` Theodore Tso
2002-02-12 8:33 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-02-12 8:56 ` mulix
2002-02-12 12:39 ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-12 21:43 ` guy keren
2002-02-12 6:00 ` David Schwartz
2002-02-12 6:09 ` Nick 'Sharkey' Moore
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