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From: Hareesh Nagarajan <hnagar2@gmail.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Looking for a file monitor
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:01:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FFD684.2020309@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602241949_MC3-1-B93F-2159@compuserve.com>

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <43FF3C1C.5040200@gmail.com>
> 
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 at 11:02:20 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> 
>> But if we want to keep a track of all the files that are opened, read, 
>> written or deleted (much like filemon; ``Filemon's timestamping feature 
>> will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, 
>> and its status column tells you the outcome."), we can write a simple 
>> patch that makes a note of these events on the VFS layer, and then we 
>> could export this information to userspace, via relayfs. It wouldn't be 
>> too hard to code a relatively efficient implementation.
> 
>  Doesn't auditing do all this?

I have no idea about auditing, but I would guess it internally uses inotify.

Hareesh

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-25  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-25  0:46 Looking for a file monitor Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-25  4:01 ` Hareesh Nagarajan [this message]
2006-02-25  8:49   ` Arjan van de Ven
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-24  7:51 Wei Hu
2006-02-24  8:06 ` Hareesh Nagarajan
2006-02-24  8:38   ` Wei Hu
2006-02-24 12:05   ` Diego Calleja
2006-02-24 17:02     ` Hareesh Nagarajan
2006-02-25  0:40       ` Wei Hu
2006-02-25  4:00         ` Hareesh Nagarajan
     [not found] ` <43FEC9EC.7080902@dawes.za.net>
2006-02-24 15:03   ` Wei Hu

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