From e041c4f4a9a8683699879df696cfcbd1e60cccdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Welte Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:54:46 +0200 Subject: Add reference to unixdump by stealth --- README.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f7a95b5..7ac8327 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -97,3 +97,13 @@ something like: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/titan LD_PRELOAD=libudtrace.so systemctl status +Related Work +------------ + +stealth had implemented a kernel-based unix domain tracer in 2009, which +you can find in http://www.suse.de/%7Ekrahmer/unixdump-0.42.tgz + +While fundamentally, a kernel based tracer is much superior to the LD_PRELOAD +approach of udtrace, I think there's little use of it if it's not merged into +the mainline kernel, and hence available with stock distributions, as well +as maintained for all kernel internal API changes. -- cgit v1.2.3