Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 10:35:42 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: Syscall table AKA hijacking syscalls |
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> I'm writing some project which needs to hijack some syscalls in VFS > layer. AFAIK in 2.6 is this "not-wanted" solution (even that there are > some very nasty ways of doing it - see > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2002-12/msg00266.html )
And it will fail miserably on many non x86 architectures for various reasons:
1. ppc64 and ia64 use function descriptors 2. sparc64 uses a 32bit call out table
In short its not only an awful hack, its horribly non portable :)
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