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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
	John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] inotify, improved.
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:36:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B2FBF3.6010607@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506171611.j5HGBFY8012609@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> It's also racy as hell.  By the time the inotify gets delivered to the
> userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone.....

Yep.  But I can see uses for people to want to log all activity on 
specific directory trees.  Think audit trails, etc.

Imagine root getting a log like:

Date: Jan 1,2006: file /foo/evidence.txt changed by user blah, pid 
<666>, commandline: "vi evidence.txt"

Chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-17 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-15 17:18 [patch] inotify Robert Love
2005-06-16 17:52 ` Zach Brown
2005-06-16 18:25   ` Robert Love
2005-06-17  1:30     ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-17  1:35       ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 15:15         ` [patch] inotify, improved Robert Love
2005-06-17 15:37           ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 15:44             ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 16:11               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-06-17 16:29                 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 16:36                 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-06-17 16:43                   ` Chris Wright
2005-06-17 16:46                   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-06-17 16:40               ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 17:57                 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 17:20           ` Zach Brown
2005-06-17 17:54             ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 17:56               ` Zach Brown
2005-06-17 18:15                 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 18:17                   ` Zach Brown
2005-06-17 17:07     ` [patch] inotify Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-17 17:54       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-17 18:12         ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 18:16         ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 18:28           ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-17 18:38             ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 18:45               ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-17 18:54                 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 17:56       ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 21:33         ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17 21:40           ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 23:52             ` Robert Love
2005-06-21  0:51               ` Neil Brown
2005-06-21  2:15                 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-21  2:29                   ` Neil Brown
2005-06-21  2:43                     ` John McCutchan
2005-06-21 15:55                     ` Robert Love
2005-07-14  0:25                       ` Neil Brown
2005-07-14  4:11                         ` John McCutchan
2005-06-18  0:05             ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-18  0:57               ` Robert Love
2005-06-18  1:51       ` Chris Wedgwood

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