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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Raffaele De Lorenzo <raffaele.delorenzo@libero.it>
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Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>,
	FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Added native socks support to libc in FreeBSD 7
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Raffaele De Lorenzo <raffaele.delorenzo@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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