Is it possible to write some sort of kernel mode app,
that hooks on top of the file system calls / IO calls,
and logs every call as they pass through it?
Something similar to a File System Filter Driver on
Windows.
Thanks
--- Michael Raymond <mraymond@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> AFAIK on most system no. On IRIX we have a tool
> called rtmon that can
> log all the system calls made on the system. Your
> tool could get the info
> you need from there. It is our intention to do
> something similar for Linux
> but that's going to take a while. I don't know
> about other OSs. I briefly
> considered poll() and select() but they check if
> data is available, and
> read()s don't affect that.
> Michael
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:15:16PM -0700, Krishna
> Monian wrote:
> > Is there any way to modify it so that it does log
> > reads? Or is the only way to do this, is to write
> some
> > sort of file system filter ?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> --
> Michael A. Raymond Office: (651)
> 683-3434
> Core OS Group Real-Time System
> Software
>
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