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    SubjectRe: fanotify as syscalls
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    On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 13:32 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:39:33 +0100
    > Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> wrote:
    >
    > > Lived with it because there was no other option. We used LSM while it
    > > was available for modules but then it was taken away.
    >
    > ... at which point you could have submitted your LSM module for
    > inclusion... you'd be the first (and only?) Anti Virus vendor that
    > would be in the mainline kernel.. speaking of competitive advantage,
    > coming out of the box in all distributions.

    And users would be left in a situation between choosing an LSM which
    actually does in provable ways increase security and using an AV
    scanner. Until magic solves the LSM stacking problem (it's been tried,
    no magic) I don't think any distro wants AV vendors as LSMs.

    -Eric



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