listening in on Unix domain sockets

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Wed Nov 7 19:56:00 GMT 2007


Hi -

> I'm trying to analyze [a UNIX vendor's] Java plugin.  The plugin
> proper forks and execs a JVM process with which it communicates
> through Unix domain sockets.  Is there a way to externally trace
> data exchange across Unix domain sockets?

Other than system-call level tracing, here's a low-level method.
http://sources.redhat.com/systemtap/wiki/WSunixSockets

- FChE



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