From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755613Ab1LVTZr (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:25:47 -0500 Received: from tn-76-7-162-101.sta.embarqhsd.net ([76.7.162.101]:45531 "EHLO animx.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752448Ab1LVTZn (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:25:43 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1302 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:25:43 EST Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:03:59 -0500 From: Wakko Warner To: Gaurav Saxena Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Intercepting system calls Message-ID: <20111222190359.GF604@animx.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Gaurav Saxena , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gaurav Saxena wrote: > Oh. I will not do it then, could you suggest me something so that I > could prevent unlink on some file say using kernel support. I want to > save file on unlink how could I do that without kernel support, or how > could I do that using a kernel module. I wrote a library that can be loaded in userspace that does this. It's not very polished, but it works for me. I use it for rsync when I want files "deleted" but not from the filesystem. It creates a .deleted directory in the $PWD. If you're interested, I can send it to you. I have it working on i386 and amd64. -- Microsoft has beaten Volkswagen's world record. Volkswagen only created 22 million bugs.