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Andy Koppe wrote:

> But the DLL injection makes me wonder: is it possible to override
> existing functions such as WriteConsole or ReadConsole?

  You'd need to inject a DLL that hotpatched the IAT live in memory, which is
certainly possible, but a bit hacky.  (I don't know whether the LD_PRELOAD
mechanism would get invoked when spawning a win32 process but it would
probably be nice to use if it did.)

    cheers,
      DaveK

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