Re: Kernel hook for open

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 06:09:33 EST


On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> To test Y2k readiness of programs one simply can use my timetravel kernel
> module. No, doing things in userspace is far more complex and less
> reliable and also simply not good enough (because doesn't cover the case
  ~~~~~~~~

yes, yes, I am aware of the infamous "race in rmmod in blocked syscalls
replaced by a module" problem. But now that y2k is long gone why should I
fix it? :) (it is trivial to fix with MOD_INC/DEC_USE_COUNT anyway).

> of statically-linked binaries):
>
> http://www.ocston.org/~tigran/tt/tt.html
>
> Regards,
> Tigran
>
>

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