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THIS IS AMAZING! I would have never imagined seeing something this useful being made in my life.
by gravypod 11y ago
THIS IS AMAZING! I would have never imagined seeing something this useful being made in my life.
- jldugger 11y agoIt's actually quite simple. LD_PRELOAD can achieve a similar effect, if the software is using the typical syscall library.
- gravypod 11y agoI know exactly how it was done, I am just amazed that it was done. It's a great idea that I have never come up with, nor would I be able to.
- emmelaich 11y agoYes, it's a great idea. A similar idea is used to trace what 'make install' does so that stuff can be uninstalled later - or made into a package (rpm, dpkg etc) I forget what that tool is called.
- burrows 11y agohttp://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
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- obelisk_ 11y agoAlso similar in concept is the tup build system which monitors rule commands run to gain knowledge of additional dependencies. http://gittup.org/tup/ex_dependencies.html http://gittup.org/tup/ex_dependencies.html
- throwaway2048 11y agoI wouldn't rely on it being safe, it makes a lot of assumptions that programs that do destructive things might violate.