Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:54:38 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linuxinterfaceforon access scanning |
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:38:23PM -0400, Press, Jonathan wrote: > Is your point that Linux and Unix machines are less vulnerable to > viruses? If so, that's not relevant to my point at all. A Unix machine > can be a carrier, passing infections on to other vulnerable platforms > (guess which one). An enterprise security system sees the entire > enterprise as an integrated whole -- not just individual machines with > their own separate attributes and no impact on each other at all.
Sure, but if that's the case, you don't need to have a blocking open() interface. Having inotify tell your application that a file descriptor that had been opened for writing has been closed (IN_CLOSE_WRITE) should be quite sufficient.
- Ted
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