about syscallent.h and syscall.h

[Dmitry V. Levin]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 06:26:36PM +0000, sean yang wrote:
> I am very interested in strace and want to modify it a bit(to investigate a 
> little more information when intercept a system call) for my own debugging 
> purpose. I am looking at the code in strace-4.5.14. I found there are two 
> files syscall.h and syscallent.h under strace-4.5.14/linux. system calls in 
> syscallent.h are a subset of system calls in syscall.h
> 
> I understood that syscallent.h gives the system calls being "intercepted 
> and processed". However, what does strace do to the system calls not 
> included in syscallent.h but included in syscall.h? For example, 
> sys_gethostname? I can see the processing routine for sys_gethostname in 
> strace-4.5.14/process.c.

The syscall.h file just contains function prototypes.
It defines no syscall processing.

syscallent*.h files define translation tables, see syscall.c for details.

There is a raw deparser, printargs(), which is used e.g. in raw mode and
for some syscalls.


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