Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2006 00:33:44 +0000 | From | "Jon Masters" <> | Subject | Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate |
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On 3/7/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:31 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > > As for the non-existent virus problem - it is mostly prevented > > by users not being administrators. And you can go further > > with a readonly /usr and a noexec /home.
> I believe he is referring to using Linux systems to provide virus > scanning services for mail, NFS, SMB etc. clients, rather than to virus > scanning for the Linux desktop (which is indeed a non problem).
Sure. I wasn't hand waving an muttering about virus problems on Linux desktops everywhere.
Anyway. Seems a couple of us are interested in having something more generic at the VFS level to notify userspace about particular events of interest (recursively registering a watcher on every directory is silly). I really should go scope out some of the existing projects that cover this before I decide what to do. This kind of thing should be in mainline IMHO.
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