From: fmalita@gmail.com (Florin Malita)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Snooping on sockets/file descriptors
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:43:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D99E729.6080805@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinOmefDi3qSN6-yrAa+ewD4=n8Qe3xaE4BCJFzQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/31/11 15:29, Vimal wrote:
> Is it possible for an application (say "snoop", with sufficient
> privileges) to monitor data on any socket/file descriptor in the
> system?
"snoop" it is :)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoop/
> Here's an example: suppose we have a browser and it creates a tcp
> socket to connect to a URL. Whenever the browser issues a read() and
> data is pushed to user space, I want "snoop" to get notified and made
> available a copy of the same data that the browser read.
For this particular scenario snoop may not be the best choice: while it
can attach on-the-fly when opening local files (inotify trigger), socket
FDs must be picked manually after they've been opened
(/proc/<pid>/fd/...) - so unless your connection is long-lived, this is
going to be tricky.
--
Florin
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2011-03-31 19:29 ` Snooping on sockets/file descriptors Vimal
2011-03-31 19:58 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-31 20:04 ` Vimal
2011-04-01 0:19 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-04-01 7:23 ` Vimal
2011-04-01 13:34 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-04-01 15:28 ` Vimal
2011-04-04 15:43 ` Florin Malita [this message]
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