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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: stat module
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:27:57 +0100
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To: Juha Heljoranta <juha.heljoranta@evitech.fi>
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Juha Heljoranta wrote:

>Hi, 
>
>I was thinking about to write a module to match outbound packets against
>stat (file of filesystem status) information. One might find device and
>inode information usefull.
>
>Usage might be something like
>$ iptables -A OUTPUT -m stat --device 303 --inode 341166 -j ACCEPT
>
>Anyway, I thought to ask if you have any suggestions, thoughts,
>opinions, etc. about this. I might find them helpfull :)
>  
>
Not sure what you want to match here, is it the inode of the
executable that created the packet ? If so, have a look at
the owner match.


>I have about 400 hours to spend on this. So how does it sound? 
>  
>
I wish I had 400 hours .. ;)

Best regards,
Patrick