Re: Intercepting system calls

From: Wakko Warner
Date: Fri Dec 23 2011 - 10:10:58 EST


Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Wakko Warner wrote:
>
> > > Oh. I will not do it then, could you suggest me something so that I
> > > could prevent unlink on some file say using kernel support. I want to
> > > save file on unlink how could I do that without kernel support, or how
> > > could I do that using a kernel module.
> >
> > I wrote a library that can be loaded in userspace that does this. It's not
> > very polished, but it works for me. I use it for rsync when I want files
> > "deleted" but not from the filesystem. It creates a .deleted directory in
> > the $PWD.
>
> I don't see a way how library could cover any arbitrary userspace process
> issuing unlink() (consider statically linked binaries, for starters).

It cannot. I already understand that static binaries cannot be trapped like
this.

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