On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:33:57PM +0530, Sridhar N wrote: > Reading your FAQ, i just got a bit confused on the how the sys_execve() > works, can you elaborate on it ? If you could tell me which bits are unclear to you explicitly, it would be very helpful. As I understand it, it's difficult for me to say which bits are troublesome for you. I acceupt it may not be clear, but I genuinely need help for details in /why/ it's not clear, and which bits are troublesome. > And the part about providing a hook ... I > just want to printk the name of the executable and be done with it. Can't it > be done in an easier way ? It depends upon the scope of the college project. Intercepting sys_execve might be a reasonable solution, or hooking into something like the Linux Trace Toolkit might be better. regards john -- "So what you're saying is "screw the disabled" and you want us to do the same ? No thanks..." - Ian Hixie, bug 25537 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/