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SubjectRe: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Andy Glew wrote:

> So, back to where we started: is there a kernel syscall interposition
> driver for LINUX? Another respondent implied that there might be.

yes, it's called ptrace(), debugging tools like gdb or strace use it
extensively. There is another solution that is used by the iBCS2
kernel-module, a separate system call entry. So you can 'proxy' a system
call in an arbitrary way.

-- mingo


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