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Subject: Re: LD_PRELOAD an anonymous file?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:55:19 -0400
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hi - thanks much!

> A (very brief) test suggested that the links in /proc/<parent pid>/fd
> should still work. e.g. if file descriptor 3 points to what used to
> be intercept.so, so will /proc/<parent pid>/fd/3.

brilliant! I've tried myself -- works fine :)
(my program actually does exec() without doing fork(),
so /proc/self/fd/<fd> was just fine.  also:
/dev/fd/<fd> worked equally okay on all of solaris2,
linux, netbsd :) )

> In principle, it could probably be done with ptrace() and the rest
> of the debugging API, but it wouldn't be much fun.

hmm., never thought about that direction - I'll think about it.

thanks again!!
kenji :)