lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Nov]   [28]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Out of tree module using LSM

On Nov 28 2007 16:38, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> And if we are talking about the situation when files are written to
>> in controlled way (i.e. we are not concerned with malware running on
>> the box in question and just want to stop it from passing through
>> mailsewer, etc.), then there's no damn need to play with LSM - just
>> have e.g. coda with its commit-on-close and run the scanner on
>> commit. End of story. Mind you, in such setups one would be much
>> better off just having the mail server run the tests explicitly in
>> the userland, along with the rest of anti-spam, etc. filters.
>
>I've repeated the above statements so many times to a number of the
>anti-virus companies, and other people that really should know better,
>that I'm really sick of it. For some reason, they keep trying to do
>things like this in the kernel, despite it being trivial to do in
>userspace properly.
>
Do you mean something along the lines of FUSE?


-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-11-29 01:57    [W:0.174 / U:0.080 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site