Re: why is intercepting system calls considerred bad?

[Bodo Eggert]

Joshua Hudson <joshudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/20/06, Irfan Habib <irfan.habib@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I recently met a kernel janitor, who told me that intercepting system
>> calls is undesirable, why?
> 
> I'll bite.
> 
> You intercept. Somebody else intercepts. You want to stop intercepting.

Use a double-linked list.

Having a mechanism to intercept syscalls will slow down syscall processing,
and there was no legit user in the history of linux. If you need something
like that, there is ptrace.

> For this reason, anybody who intercepts a system call must be compiled
> in,

No, but they may need to be compiled in for other reasons.

> and if two intercept the same system call, than the link order
> dictates behavior.
> 
> Obviously not desirable.

ACK.
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