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Re: fopen() calls __open()


John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com> writes:

> Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:
>
>> If you have any other suggestions for me, I'd certainly like to hear them!
>
> For many particular cases, it is feasible to rewrite (patch) glibc
> at runtime.  Disassemble to find the calls of interest, then change them.
> Of course this is architecture dependent, and some modes of SELinux aim to
> inhibit such modifications.  But on x86, x86_64, and PowerPC it is not
> hard to do.

This is an interesting option to consider.  Can you point me to any
open-source applications that actually do this?

Thanks!

Derrell


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