Re: ptrace and friends

Krzysztof G. Baranowski (kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:16:37 +0100 (EET)


On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Roger Espel Llima wrote:
> > There is another solution that is used by the iBCS2
> > kernel-module, a separate system call entry. So you can 'proxy' a system
> > call in an arbitrary way.
> More generally, the module API has a generic way to hook system calls.
What do you mean by generic way to hook system calls... messing with
sys_call_table[] from within module ? If so, I wouldn't consider the
thing as a generic API, as it's format is undefined and architecture
dependant.

Kris

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