Intercepting a system call

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:58:29 +0530, Paul Davies C said:

>   [1] is the module I wrote for intercepting the system call fork().

Totally skipping over the details of actually doing it - it's usually
considered a Bad Idea to hook a system call, and 98% of the time there's
a much better way to achieve whatever goal you're trying to accomplish
by hooking the syscall.

In other words, why are you trying to do that in the first place?
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