This is the mail archive of the cygwin-developers mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: MSYS mode (continue)


On 7/26/2013 10:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Daniel Colascione's point is a stumbling block though since the
> LD_PRELOAD method doesn't currently allow hooking anything other than
> the main executable.  That means that, say, ncurses wouldn't know about
> an MSYS-hooked uname.  It is possible to work around that but it would
> require the addition of new code to the LD_PRELOAD mechanism, requiring
> that we keep a table of hooked functions.

You don't need to maintain your own table. When you hook, you just have to munge
all the import tables of all currently-loaded modules, then munge the export
table of the module you want to hook. Munging the export table will take care of
any modules that load in the future.




Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]