Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

Ingo Oeser
2001-05-03T10:38:25Z

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:44:36PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> >2. How do you do it today, and why wouldn't that work?
>
> LD_PRELOAD on a library that overrides gettimeofday(). I can see no
> reason why that would not continue to work.

Static linkage?

> What would stop working
> are timewarp modules that intercepted the syscall at the kernel level
> instead of user space level.

That's what the poster talked about ;-)

Think subterfuge (sp?) and friends.

Regards

Ingo Oeser
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