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From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reading from file in module fails
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 14:41:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040503124105.GS29503@lug-owl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040503114316.GA22732@Loki>

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On Mon, 2004-05-03 13:43:16 +0200, Libor Vanek <libor@conet.cz>
wrote in message <20040503114316.GA22732@Loki>:
> It's not bad design - what I'm doing is writing snapshots for VFS as my diploma thesis. And I need to create copy of file before it's changed (copy-on-write). There is no other way how to do it in kernel-space (and user-space solutions like using LUFS are really slow)

That can all be done in userspace.

$ export LD_PRELOAD=libcopyfilesbeforemodify.so

You just need to program a library that provides all functions that
modify files (eg. write, open with O_CREAT, ...) and you're done - 100%
in userspace.

MfG, JBG

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-03 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-03 10:50 Reading from file in module fails Libor Vanek
2004-05-03 11:35 ` Erik Mouw
2004-05-03 11:43   ` Libor Vanek
2004-05-03 11:48     ` Erik Mouw
2004-05-03 12:07       ` root
2004-05-03 12:41     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw [this message]
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     [not found] ` <1RJXT-19T-37@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1RK7v-1gJ-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1RL3A-23k-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-03 16:55       ` Pascal Schmidt

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