Date: 08 Jun 2001 14:26:53 +0200 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Patrick W. Penzias Dirks" <pwd@apple.com> Cc: FreeBSD-FS@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-Arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for pivot_root-like system call? Message-ID: <5lelsvtawi.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: "Patrick W. Penzias Dirks"'s message of "Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:03:06 -0700" References: <200106072103.f57L37l26327@scv2.apple.com>
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"Patrick W. Penzias Dirks" <pwd@apple.com> writes: > I'm the filesystems tech lead in Apple's Mac OS X Core OS group. > Prompted by the needs of, among others, virus protection software > developers who want to be able to mount "on" the root directory to > intercept ALL filesystem calls in the system, I'm contemplating > implementation of a new system call in Mac OS X to do something like > Linux's pivot_root system call: > > int pivot_root(const char *new_root, const char *put_old); Could you explain to me/us how you would implement virus protection software (or something similiar), based on pivot_root? Is there any such stuff for linux that uses pivot_root? /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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