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    SubjectRe: TALPA - a threat model? well sorta.
    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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