Re: Syscall table AKA hijacking syscalls

Jörn Engel
2004-01-02T16:42:14Z

On Fri, 2 January 2004 16:39:04 +0100, Libor Vanek wrote:
> >
> The code looks very nice'n'simple but it won't run on 2.6 because
> mentioned hidden sys_call_table. But I can imagine that this with some
> small tweaks can be integrated into 2.6 to provide generall
> infrastructure for syscall hijacking when really needed.

Repeat: This is a hack, nothing else.

*You* need it for your thesis, so go ahead. The right solution for
the problem, which is research, rather than engineering. But don't
think this mess should be integrated into mainline, much less tell
other people it should.

*Noone* needs it for real code that is supposed to do something
meaningful. Some people feel they need it, but they just haven't
found the right solution yet and believe this hack to be right. It
isn't.

Clear enough?

Jörn

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The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of
his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full
humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra