linux-kernel - Re: Intercepting system calls

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Date:	Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:10:53 -0500
From:	Wakko Warner <wakko@...mx.eu.org>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Gaurav Saxena <grvsaxena419@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intercepting system calls

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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