Added native socks support to libc in FreeBSD 7

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon Dec 10 04:49:51 PST 2007


Raffaele De Lorenzo <raffaele.delorenzo at libero.it> writes:
> The socks implementation wraps some syscall socket functions like
> "_connect" and "_bind" trasparently from the applications. When one of
> these is called, the "socks" check starts:  [...]

You don't need to put this in libc; you can have wrappers in a separate
library which you load with LD_PRELOAD.  The strong symbols in the
wrapper library will override the weak symbols in libc.

DES
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