Re: CP Proposal

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> "Thorsten W. Schmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
...
>> Is there a possibility to overwrite the open/fopen method, so that you
>> might make a call like "program_to_turn_off_caching program". so that you
>> could also use "command_to_turn_off_caching cp * /tmp/". This would have

You might be able to do that using subterfugue (http://subterfugue.org/)
but it seems to be suffering from lack of a maintainer.

If you don't mind doing something even more system-specific, look
at how valgrind works and think about intercepting open/open64
calls rather than calls to e.g., malloc, free, etc.