Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:37:22 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: TALPA - a threat model? well sorta. |
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:47:45 -0400 Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 17:24 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > So, what is it that anti-malware companies do? They scan files. That's > > > it. > > > > Good so lets instead have a discussion about making the file event > > notification more scalable. That is the same thing I want for content > > indexing. It is the same thing you want for certain kinds of smart > > archiving, for on-line asynchronous backup and other stuff. > > > > It ought to be a simple clean syscall interface. > > Are you willing to make it blocking? I'm not sure how to make what we > have capable of assuring that the object you got a notification about is > actually the object you are acting on. Thoughts on how to accomplish > that? I'm here to code and I'm willing to throw all my work in the > garbage if someone can show me how to actually do it better.
I don't think you need to be blocking if you passed up a file handle ?
fd = fileeventmumble(somestuff); do_stuff close(fd);
[taking care not to end up recursing as a result]
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