Let’s Go into the rabbit hole (part 1) — the challenges of dynamically hooking Golang programs

Introduction

Hooking, also known as a “detour”, is a mechanism for unconditionally redirecting the execution flow of a program.
There is a lot of literature on the Internet on how this can be done for different programming languages such as C, C++.
However, hooking Go code at runtime is not a straightforward process. It gets even more interesting
when one tries to hook Go code with Go code which leads to a deep rabbit hole. In the …

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