On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Erik Mouw wrote:
> 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.
I did this but it doesn't catch the getpwent (that use open)!
On strace it apears but my function is not called (I think it's called the
one from the library).
>
>
> Erik
>
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> of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems,
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