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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:29:12AM +0100, John Ogness wrote:
> I am the current maintainer of Dazuko. Could you please explain your 
> "wackiest 2004" comment? Do you know of a better way to intercept system 
> calls for 2.2/2.4 kernels *without* patching the kernel source?

better implies it's good - it isn't.  In fact it's plain wrong for any
kernel.  Do a stackable filesystem if you want to intercept filesystem
calls.