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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: Libor Vanek <libor@conet.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Syscall table AKA hijacking syscalls
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:12:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040102151206.GJ1718@actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FF56B1C.1040308@conet.cz>

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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:59:08PM +0100, Libor Vanek wrote:
> 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 
> some very nasty ways of doing it - see 
> http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2002-12/msg00266.html )

Why do you need to hijack system calls from a module? 99% of the
times, it's the wrong technical solution. 

> 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.

There is no such Linus recommended way. For 2.6, syscalltrack's hijack
module moved into the kernel and will provide such generic
functionality one day. But I don't anticipate it every going into the
vanilla kernel, due to Linus's well known objections to syscall
hijacking in general and making it convenient in particular. 

Cheers,
Muli 
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/

"the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - gccbot@#offtopic


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-02 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-02 12:59 Syscall table AKA hijacking syscalls Libor Vanek
2004-01-02 13:08 ` Matti Aarnio
2004-01-02 13:26   ` Libor Vanek
2004-01-02 13:57 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2004-01-02 15:39   ` Libor Vanek
2004-01-02 16:42     ` Jörn Engel
2004-01-02 15:12 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2004-01-02 15:38   ` Libor Vanek
2004-01-02 16:00     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-02 16:35       ` Jörn Engel
2004-01-02 16:59         ` Libor Vanek
2004-01-02 18:04           ` Jörn Engel
2004-01-02 18:58             ` Libor Vanek
2004-01-02 19:15               ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-02 19:23                 ` Libor Vanek
2004-01-02 19:18               ` Jörn Engel
2004-01-02 19:37                 ` Libor Vanek
2004-01-02 19:56                   ` Jörn Engel
2004-01-07  9:28     ` stefan.eletzhofer
2004-01-02 23:35 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-01-02 23:46   ` Libor Vanek
2004-01-03 15:41     ` Helge Hafting

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