On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 20:33 +0000, Liran wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Hopefully, this is not off-topic for this mailing list. > > I want to develop a kernel module that will be used to account for the > input/output of files on the system > and was wondering about doing it by intercepting the open() / read() / write() > system calls with their size attributes > and using that as a counter. (Later on, I wish to attach to a specific pid or > account for all i/o for a specific user but that's later). > So here comes my question - how do I go about doing that? Should I go with the > intercepting thing or are > there more elegant ways? I think your first misconception is that all IO starts with a syscall... that's actually very much not the case (hint: mmap'd areas). So the very first assumption of what you are trying to do is already not valid ... maybe time to rethink? -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
