On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:45:10PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Fakeroot-ng is a (as far as I know) first attempt to do the things > usually done with LD_PRELOAD using the ptrace mechanism. It was both > the trigger and the root cause of this lecture.
Not sure what you mean by "things usually done with LD_PRELOAD?" Certainly ptrace has been used to both trace and modify running binaries, by gdb, strace, dumpmem[1], memfetch[2] and others. I think I even gave a haifux talk on run-time modification of programs using ptrace for fun an profit a few years ago. > The lecture will look at fakeroot, fakechroot, fakeroot-ng and > strace, at varying degrees of depths, mostly because all four chose > slightly different approaches for solving, fundamentally, the same > problem. They did? Sounds like an interesting talk, will try to attend. [1] http://www.mulix.org/dumpmem.html [2] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/memfetch.tgz Cheers, Muli ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
