Re: Syscall table AKA hijacking syscalls

Libor Vanek
2004-01-02T13:27:05Z

Matti Aarnio wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:59:08PM +0100, Libor Vanek wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>I'm writing some project which needs to hijack some syscalls in VFS
>>layer. AFAIK in 2.6 is this "not-wanted" solution (even that there are
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>>So what is proper (Linus recommanded) way to do such a things? Create
>>patches for specific syscalls like "if this_module_installed then
>>call_this_function;" or try to force things like syscalltrack to go into
>>vanilla kernel some time? Because what I've found out there are more
>>projects which suffer from this restriction.
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>There is, of course, whole slew of politically coloured
>issues with this chainability.
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I think that issues with chainability are ALWAYS whenever you try to do
this hijacking general.

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Libor Vanek