[Systrace] Odd Behavior under Debian Linux

[jimd at starshine.org]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:27:16PM -0500, marius aamodt eriksen wrote:
> * jimd at starshine.org <jimd at starshine.org> [040115 13:04]:
 
>>  Then I used apt-get -f install systrace ("unstable")
>>  (Version: 1:20030623-3)
 
> there is a bug that appears in linux that is fixed in the latest
> version of the snapshot (on the webpage).  what happened is that linux
> added more system calls in .24; so systrace's system call table became
> too small, causing systrace to segfault, and subsequently the kernel
> to kill the user application (which is what it is supposed to do).
 
> i'd suggest trying the latest snapshot.
 
 Just to clarify --- this is the latest kernel patch snapshot?

 I'm not surprised that it's something like this; just surprised that
 -A would work and subsequent attempts to use the policy would fail
 silently!
 
 I'm very surprised that I'm not getting any syslog messages
 from any of this; that there are not "verbose" options to the systrace
 binary, and that there isn't even a -V (--version) option!

-- 
Jim Dennis