Relaying file ops to userland

[Roger H. Goun]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:05:46PM -0500, you wrote:
> It seems that I recall several times in the past
> that I've stumbled across packages that allow you to
> rig your system such that various file operations
> are relayed to code in userland rather than (or in
> addition to) being handled by the kernel.  It seems
> that I recall one that (with minimal effort) provided
> the ability to create a device node that could be
> "owned" by an arbitrary userland process and I
> may have also seen some trick that allowed you to
> intercept arbitrary file ops on arbitrary files.
> 
> Assuming that I'm not just suffering some sort of
> False Memory Syndrome here, can somebody remind me
> where I might have seen these?

FAM?

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/

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