From: Andreas Ferber <aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, SA products <super.aorta@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: faking time
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:33:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020212093355.A29445@devcon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C67AFD3.722C5471@ntlworld.com> <20020211224723.A5514@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020211224723.A5514@thunk.org>; from tytso@mit.edu on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:47:23PM -0500
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:47:23PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> Here's an LD_PRELOAD shared library that will do the trick... just
> export the environment variable FAKETIME with the time that you'd
> like, and then export the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to point
> that the faketime.so library, and then execute your program. All
> programs that have these two environment variables set will have their
> time faked out accordingly.
But note that this doesn't work with programs linked statically. If
you must fool one of those, ptrace() is the only way to do it without
some sort of kernel patch or module I think.
Andreas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-12 8:34 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
2002-02-12 3:47 ` Theodore Tso
2002-02-12 8:33 ` Andreas Ferber [this message]
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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