From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265334AbUAACaZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:30:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265336AbUAACaZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:30:25 -0500 Received: from rs9.luxsci.com ([66.216.98.59]:11498 "EHLO rs9.luxsci.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265334AbUAACaY (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:30:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF3862C.9060704@acm.org> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:30:04 -0800 From: Javier Fernandez-Ivern Reply-To: ivern@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Clark Cc: Dave Jones , rudi@lambda-computing.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File change notification References: <3FF2FC85.5070906@lambda-computing.de> <3FF31366.30206@acm.org> <3FF31A15.4070307@lambda-computing.de> <3FF377A8.6040302@metaparadigm.com> <20040101015809.GA14930@redhat.com> <3FF38375.2090808@metaparadigm.com> In-Reply-To: <3FF38375.2090808@metaparadigm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Clark wrote: > Yes I see what you mean after having a look. Would make sense to convert > this over to use only LSM hooks (which it appears to use already) if that > was possible - or maybe could be done using a VFS proxy filesystem that > monitors/relays calls to an underlying fs. I don't think using LSM hooks for this is a good idea. While it makes the changes less invasive, it forces you to enable LSM just to get file change modifications. -- Javier Fernandez-Ivern