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On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 22:01 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > In-Reply-To: <43FF3C1C.5040200@gmail.com> > > > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 at 11:02:20 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > > > >> But if we want to keep a track of all the files that are opened, read, > >> written or deleted (much like filemon; ``Filemon's timestamping feature > >> will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, > >> and its status column tells you the outcome."), we can write a simple > >> patch that makes a note of these events on the VFS layer, and then we > >> could export this information to userspace, via relayfs. It wouldn't be > >> too hard to code a relatively efficient implementation. > > > > Doesn't auditing do all this? > > I have no idea about auditing, but I would guess it internally uses inotify. it doesn't; it uses the audit framework which, by the way, exactly does what the proposed patch above would do :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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