Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:29:32 +1000 (AEST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] fanotify, inotify, dnotify, security: add security hook for fs notifications |
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 7/10/2019 6:34 AM, Aaron Goidel wrote: > > > Furthermore, fanotify watches grant more power to > > an application in the form of permission events. While notification events > > are solely, unidirectional (i.e. they only pass information to the > > receiving application), permission events are blocking. Permission events > > make a request to the receiving application which will then reply with a > > decision as to whether or not that action may be completed. > > You're not saying why this is an issue.
Also in the description, please explain the issues with read and write notifications and why a simple 'read' permission is not adequate.
-- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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