Kernel Development Learning Pipeline

L7 - 13 February 2023

Lecture Recording

Class Notes:

• Shim demo
  • How to get process ID of background process? - Stack Overflow
• Bpftrace and tracing demo
  • https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/master/docs/reference_guide.md#1-builtins
• Syscalls we are assigning for A4 (Note: you should have already been assigned to a syscall and a cohort. Let us know if that is not the case):
  • execve
  • openat
  • fstat
  • mmap
  • close
  • getuid
  • munmap
  • getrandom
  • gettimeofday
  • getpid
  • exit
• Last process ran ($!): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1908610/how-to-get-process-id-of-background-process