[PLUG] Sun

[Wil Cooley]

Jason Dagit wrote:

>> Once upon a time, at least a couple of years ago, I saw an email on the
>> kernel mailing list that mentioned this very thing.  I think the person
>> had a patch or module that could warp the system time as seen by a
>> particular process.  I wish I could remember more details.  If you are
>> feeling lucky, you might try searching the lkml archives.
>>
> That's good to hear about.  I should check on sourceforge also to see if
> there has already been an attempt.  So far the very little research I have
> done about it was about exploits.  Changing the behavior of a few select
> system calls is useful if you plan to root a box, so there are some people
> who are experts on this sort of trick.  But I think it maybe a useful
> thing to bring into the main stream of the kernel.  If done correctly it
> may even allow for normal users to test operating system functions without
> having to modify the kernel directly.
> 
> I don't plan to spend a lot of time on it, unless someone else is
> interested, but it is a fun learning oppurtunity, and project for now...

You don't need kernel hacks to do this; just a loadable library.  In fact, I 
can't actually think of how to do this in the kernel, but doing it through 
a preloaded library should be fairly straightforward.

Wil
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