# rhook
Hook libc functions with an easy API
### Usage
1- Import the trait [RunHook]
2- Create an [Command](std::process::Command) with [Command::new](std::process::Command::new) and add hooks to it via [add_hook](RunHook::add_hook) and [add_hooks](RunHook::add_hooks) methods
3- Confirm the hooks with [set_hooks](Anchor::set_hooks) method this step is necessary
3.1- Hooks are closures that takes no input and return an option of the libc function as output.
If the closure return `None` that is equivalent to returning `Some(original_function(args))` in
other words it will run and use the original function output
Inside the closure you have access to the libc function input + some imports from std (see
src/scaffold.rs)
4- Now you can carry on with the usual [Command](std::process::Command) methods ([output](std::process::Command::output), [spawn](std::process::Command::spawn),[status](std::process::Command::status),..)
**Tricks:**
The closure used for hooks have acess to many things: (imported by https://github.com/sigmaSd/Rhook/blob/master/src/scaffold.rs)
- closure input (which is the libc function input)
- closure output (which is the libc function output)
- The original function with the following name `original_$libcfn` this is useful in particular to avoid recursion
- Some varaibles to make coding easier: `transmute` `ManuallyDrop` `CString` and a static mut `COUNTER`
- You can find the input/output of a function by looking it up here [libc](https://docs.rs/libc)
- Add `.map_err(|e|println("{}",e))` after `set_hooks` in order to prettify the dynamic library compiling error while debugging
- If you take ownership of an input value inside of the closure, be sure to use ManuallyDrop so you don't free it
### Example
Say you want to limit the bandwidth of a program
Usually downloading calls `libc::recv` function
So our goal is to throttle it with a simple sleep
To do that with this crate: (taking speedtest program as an example)
1- Look up its doc's here [recv](https://docs.rs/libc/0.2.93/libc/fn.recv.html) to see what the
function's input/output is
2- use this crate
```rust
use rhook::{RunHook, Hook};
std::process::Command::new("speedtest").add_hook(Hook::recv(stringify!(||{
std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(10));
// since we're not doing any modification to the output you can just return None here
Some(original_recv(socket, buf, len, flags))
}))).set_hooks().unwrap().spawn();
```
Thats it!
Note that you have acess inside the closure to the original function denoted by the prefix
`original_` + the function name
Check out the examples for more info
License: MIT