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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:02:42 +0200
From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
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Subject: Re: System call wrapping
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:16:10PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> What is wrong with a preloaded library (by means of /etc/ld.so.preload)
> that intercepts open at the library level (and calls the real open()
> using RLTD_NEXT) ? Just let it talk over a unix socket to your
> scanner server.

Because you want to intercept ALL "open" system calls, not just those
of "friendly" users who agree to set LD_PRELOAD. 

			Roger. 

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