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Re: Generic System call handler

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 17:33, Sridhar N wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 April 2002 12:17, Frank Schaefer wrote:
> > > Not what i want.  It ( so does SNARE)supports *specific* syscalls, but
> > > not the generic one i want to build.
> >
> > what the hell is a GENERIC SYSCALL ??????????
>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Nothng that i know of. Looks like u didn't get my drift. Currently, all the 

Right, I didn't read the whole thread -- sorry.

> logging tools that i know of - SNARE, syscalltrack -  support logging of 
> specific syscalls - read,write,exec etc.  What they do is a kernel module 
> that presumably "hijacks" the call and logs it. It then passes it on to the 
> real syscall implementation.  My point is to log all syscalls irrespective of 
> what they are.....One place i'm looking at is the entry.S, i'm looking at the 
> wrong place there, and i don't know which is the right place.

Ravi's right. This IS definitively the place you should look in.

Regards
Frank

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