I like the use of LD_PRELOAD in this paper: Long et al., Automatic Runtime Error Repair and Containment via Recovery Shepherding, PLDI 2014, http://people.csail

I like the use of LD_PRELOAD in this paper: Long et al., Automatic Runtime Error Repair and Containment via Recovery Shepherding, PLDI 2014, http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/pldi14.pdf http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/pldi14.pdf The authors have a small library that sets up some signal handlers for things like divide by zero and segmentation faults. They LD_PRELOAD this library when starting a buggy binary (they test things like Chromium and the GIMP), and when the program tries to divide by zero or read from a null pointer, their signal handlers step in and pretend that the operation resulted in a value of 0. The program can then carry on without crashing and usually does someting meaningful. Tadaa, automatic runtime error repair!