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Re: Added native socks support to libc in FreeBSD 7

From: Raffaele De Lorenzo (raffaele.delorenzolibero.it)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2007 - 07:39:09 CST


Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Raffaele De Lorenzo <raffaele.delorenzolibero.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
>
You can see in the port-tree my project "csocks" and
http://csocks.altervista.org.

Raffaele
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