"Jojo Mwebaze" <jojo.mweb...@gmail.com> wrote
I would like to intercept and record I/O function calls to a file..
(later
to a database) with probably the names of the files that have been
created,
accessed / deleted in my program. I have not done something like
this
before.. Some Guidance is highly appreciated
Are you talking about I/O calls in your own app? If so thats fairly
straightforward to do. OTOH If you are talking about capturing all
I/O calls that's a lot harder.... and if it's a multi-user OS will
need
administrator privileges.
But this is extremely dependant on the Operating System - you will
basically
have to intercept the system calls. So, which OS are you using?
And how familiar are you with its API?
Al;so, While you can probably do this in Python but its likely to have
a serious impact on the OS performance, it will slow down the
performamce
quite noticeably. I'd normally recommend using C for something like
this.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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