Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2006 05:26:09 -0500 (EST) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate |
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jon Masters wrote:
> 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. >
Hmm, this could also be very useful for change management systems and especially backup utilities. Imagine having a daemon that records all the changes on a filesystem, and then backs them up periodically. Could very well be useful.
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