Re: Kernel hook for open

[Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:11:11AM -0500, Michael Vines wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > Use LD_PRELOAD instead.
> 
> You could also write a simple kernel module that replaces the open system
> call.  See the Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide for details. 
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/guides.html
> 
> specifically http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lkmpg/node20.html

Why difficult when it can be done easy? To test the Y2K readiness of
some programs (yeah, Y2K, remember?), I wrote a small library that
overloaded the time() and gettimeofday() syscalls in about 100 lines of
code. No kernel modules needed, no root privileges needed, just set the
environment variable LD_PRELOAD and off you go.


Erik

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