Re: Syscall table AKA hijacking syscalls
From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 18:41:47 EST
> 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 )
And it will fail miserably on many non x86 architectures for
various reasons:
1. ppc64 and ia64 use function descriptors
2. sparc64 uses a 32bit call out table
In short its not only an awful hack, its horribly non portable :)
Anton
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