Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:53:11 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Points to fs architecture |
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:38:58PM -0500, surfing t wrote:
> I want to create a utility that "hooks" into the the filesystem.
OK
> What I want to do is to be able to review all file system > read/write/seek requests, most of the time without affecting file > system operation (ie after review the request is passed on to the > entity that would have received it had my utility not been > installed, however some of the requests my driver should handle > itself.
Strictly speaking what you want then is not going to be at the filesystem layer, since the filesystem layer doesn't generally see seeks, writes, etc.
It sounds like you want to instrument the system calls, look at the man pages for 'strace' and similar.
> Basically I just want to "hijack" the system calls that applications > use to access files and then pass them on to the original system > call. Is this possible and how do I do it?
The ptrace system call and a little effort will let you do this. You can also use LD_PRELOAD and over-ride some glibc hooks for the file IO operations --- there are plenty of things that do this I'm sure already.
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