From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: hsultan@thefroid.net
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: ABI guarantee for auditd
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:59:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3567295.SZ2jdmf0NG@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cba9a7e8b758a69868e2129acc350183@thefroid.net>
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 02:34:16 PM hsultan@thefroid.net wrote:
> On 2015-01-15 12:44, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:24:38 PM hsultan@thefroid.net wrote:
> >> Regarding auditd, what is the ABI guarantee ? Do you guarantee that
> >> the
> >> text contained in audit_reply->msg.data will always be the same
> >> format ?
> >> I imagine you reserve the right to add fields, but how about
> >> removing
> >> any or even reordering them ?
> >
> > Its happens on occasion. Requirements change, bugs are found, new
> > features asked for.
>
> Thanks, that tells me most of what I need, one last thing : do you
> happen to know if the 'big' distribs(Ubuntu,RH,CentOS,Debian...) ship
> those format changes only in new releases of their distribs, or do they
> include them in patches for existing releases as well ?
I can't speak for other distributions, but if I find a mistake in the audit
records, I fix it to be right rather than hold ABI and stay forever wrong. This
doesn't happen very often. The audit records are mostly stable. But there are
155 different records.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-15 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-15 20:24 ABI guarantee for auditd hsultan
2015-01-15 20:44 ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-15 22:34 ` hsultan
2015-01-15 22:59 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2015-01-16 2:20 ` hsultan
2015-01-16 4:45 ` Hassan Sultan
2015-01-16 13:48 ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-16 21:34 ` hsultan
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