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Usage ideas
One thing parasite code can do is call clone() and create thread having access to main process VM, FDT, FS, etc. The new thread can then
- Check socket FDs to get stuck/closed by polling them
- Apply "logrotate" on the fly
- Garbage collector
- Catch SIGSEGV, do smth with mappings and act upon "illegal" memory access
Another is to do some activity on the victim and then just unload. With this we can
- Death detection. Open pipe/socket and pass the other end outside. Once the victim dies the pipe/socket will wake up.
- Binary updates. E.g. live patching or libr relink
- Inject socket spy -- instead of opened socket create a unix one, put it in place of original one and send the latter back to caller so that any traffic flow in one goes "through" the spy
- Do "nohup" on the fly
- Debug stuff by MSG_PEEK-ing sockets messages of tee+splice sockets
- Re-connect sleeping sockets to other addresses (not 100% safe)
- "Soft" restart of a service -- call execve() from it's context
- Force entering into CT (except pid namespace, probably)
- Re-open all files (and cwd, root) to facilitate moving on new / (e.g. for disk replacement)
- Remove leaks from e.g. malloc/free heap