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System call instrumentation on Linux/x86‑64 using memory‑indirect calls, part I


Diverting trains of thought, wasting precious time My libsystrap library provides a simple instrumentation of system calls in Linux x86-64 userland. However, its current implementation suffers a double-trap overhead: system calls become ud2, which generates a SIGILL trap.

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