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Re: [PATCH 1/4] 'catch syscall' feature -- Architecture-independent part
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 22:11:27, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> El mar, 04-11-2008 a las 23:12 +0200, Eli Zaretskii escribiÃ:
> > Who said that a syscall is necessarily defined by some number?
>
> I assumed every OS used numbers to define syscalls ...
>
> > More generally, let's say I'd like to implement support for this on
> > Windows -- how would I need to go about it?
>
> ... but from what you are saying it seems that in Windows it's
> different. What's the proper datatype to represent a syscall there?
Depends on what you're calling a syscall on Windows.
If talking about userland->kernel calls, similarly to this
new feature, an integer.
http://www.metasploit.com/users/opcode/syscalls.html
http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-p/system/devicedriverdevelopment/article.php/c8035
strace-like tracers on Windows are usually more interested in
tracing calls to all kinds of dlls, and they usually do so by
playing games with the import tables, I believe.
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Pedro Alves