"Watchdogs"

[Eric Roskos]

In article <1449 at sugar.UUCP>, peter at sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> check out the USENIX transcripts
> for "Watchdogs", [a program]
> executed when you do a system call that references a
> file; [it] can let requests default to their
> normal behaviour, refuse them, or fill in their own behaviour.

As a historical note, a similar feature was provided on TOPS-10 (the old
operating system for DECSystem-10's), called "File Daemons;" maybe
this was the inspiration for "Watchdogs"?
-- 
Eric Roskos, IDA (...dgis!csed-1!roskos or csed-1!roskos at HC.DSPO.GOV)